by Cynthia | Jan 19, 2023 | Guest Blogs
Divers removing ghost nets tangled on reefs Underwater clean-ups were conducted at Pulau Besar and Pulau Pemanggil with a team of divers from the Johor’s Department of Fisheries, Tengah Island Conservation and the Pulau Besar community. The team collected a...
by Cynthia | Jan 19, 2023 | Guest Blogs
Our team recently collaborated with the Green Semporna, WWF Malaysia, Ministry of Tourism, Culture, & Environment Sabah, JH Scuba, and Borneo Komrad to organise a Community Environmental Leadership Camp. This camp was a capacity-building and development program...
by Cynthia | Jan 5, 2023 | Julian's Thoughts
The year 2022 has finally come to an end.If 2021 was the year of Covid, 2022 has been a year of recovery – and a huge increase in the tempo of our activities, with new programmes starting in Redang island and the Semporna islands in Sabah.In 2022 our survey programme...
by Cynthia | Jan 3, 2023 | Press Release
Putrajaya, 14 December 2022: A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Department of Fisheries (DOF), representing the Government of Malaysia and Reef Check Malaysia was signed by YBhg. Datuk Haji Mohd Sufian bin Sulaiman, Director-General of the Department of...
by Cynthia | Nov 15, 2022 | Julian's Thoughts
Coral reefs are sometimes described as “the rainforests of the sea”, a phrase used to capture the vast biodiversity that they harbour. But at the same time, they are often (mis-)treated as “the invisible ecosystem” because, unlike actual rainforests, they are to all...
