Country: Mexico 🇲🇽
Erick Higuera is a Mexican marine biologist, author and wildlife filmmaker specializing in ocean wildlife natural history filming. He has spent more than 20 years exploring and documenting the marine wildlife in and around the Gulf of California and the Revillagigedo National Park through scuba diving, photographic-identification, scientific research and capturing images of the marine life that inhabits these biodiversity-rich waters.
His work has appeared in a number of award-winning natural history documentaries produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, National Geographic, Silverback Films, Wildspace Productions, Terra Mater, Canal Once and played on BBC One, Netflix, Discovery+, PBS, Apple TV and Disney+.
Higuera is one of the image-makers for Pelagic Life (http://www.pelagiclife.org/produccion), a non-profit civil organization with the mission to protect the marine mega fauna in the Mexican open ocean through awareness using inspiring images, fomenting sustainable ecotourism and promoting responsible seafood consumption.
Erick’s catalog is filled with amazing images of some of the ocean’s largest inhabitants. He’s also a marine scientist and one of the principal leaders of MANTA PACIFICO Collective whose mission is to lead marine scientific research of the Oceanic Giant Manta (Mobula birostris) in the Gulf of California and the National Park Revillagigedo with the objective of helping to create better management plans in order to increase the conservation of the species.
His understanding of pelagic animals has led him to conduct photo-identification (photo-ID) research and maintain scientific databases for oceanic manta rays, bottlenose dolphins and, more recently, orca pods in the Gulf of California.
His work has appeared in a number of award-winning natural history documentaries produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, National Geographic, Silverback Films, Wildspace Productions, Terra Mater, Canal Once and played on BBC One, Netflix, Discovery+, PBS, Apple TV and Disney+.
Higuera is one of the image-makers for Pelagic Life (http://www.pelagiclife.org/produccion), a non-profit civil organization with the mission to protect the marine mega fauna in the Mexican open ocean through awareness using inspiring images, fomenting sustainable ecotourism and promoting responsible seafood consumption.
Erick’s catalog is filled with amazing images of some of the ocean’s largest inhabitants. He’s also a marine scientist and one of the principal leaders of MANTA PACIFICO Collective whose mission is to lead marine scientific research of the Oceanic Giant Manta (Mobula birostris) in the Gulf of California and the National Park Revillagigedo with the objective of helping to create better management plans in order to increase the conservation of the species.
His understanding of pelagic animals has led him to conduct photo-identification (photo-ID) research and maintain scientific databases for oceanic manta rays, bottlenose dolphins and, more recently, orca pods in the Gulf of California.