The animal most snorkelers actually meet in the Mamanucas is not a shark or a dolphin. It is a giant clam wedged into the reef shelf, its mantle flashing electric blue, with a green turtle grazing on sea grass a few meters further out. Real wildlife encounters here run on Fiji’s terms, not a brochure’s. Fijian crested iguana conservation on Malolo The Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) is critically endangered, and Malolo Island is one of its last strongholds.