Reef Check Malaysia Receives OCEAN Grant to Empower Larapan Island Communities in Marine Resource Management

by Liyana | Feb 7, 2025 | Press Release

SEMPORNA, 7 FEBRUARY 2025 – Reef Check Malaysia is proud to be a recipient of the Ocean Community Empowerment and Nature Programme (OCEAN Grant Programme), supported by the UK Government. With this grant, Reef Check Malaysia will implement a project that builds on its...

(Part II) The Results of the 2024 Reef Check Surveys: Challenges and Opportunities

by Liyana | Feb 6, 2025 | Julian's Thoughts

What Can We Do to Help Malaysia’s Coral ReefsIn my last post I covered the results of the 2024 annual reef check survey programme, which had just been released. The headline: coral reef health declined slightly – again – compared to the previous year, and I...

The Results of the 2024 Reef Check Surveys: Challenges and Opportunities

by Liyana | Jan 31, 2025 | Julian's Thoughts

Reef Check Malaysia’s Annual Survey Report 2024 CompletedWe have just finalised the report on our 2024 annual coral reef survey programme in Malaysia. I thought it might be useful to share parts of the conclusions and recommendations to an audience who perhaps...

From a Broken Leg to Stronger Community Participation: A Year in Review

by Liyana | Dec 24, 2024 | Julian's Thoughts

Reflections on a year that passed so fast……that it barely seems like yesterday that I returned from a trip to the UK in the middle of January…with a broken leg, still!This has been quite a momentous year for RCM. We have achieved so much it is difficult to summarise...

Walking Away from COP 16: What Changed, What Didn’t, and What’s Next

by Liyana | Nov 8, 2024 | Julian's Thoughts

So that happened. What an interesting experience! Apparently, over 16,000 people gathered in Cali, Colombia, for COP 16, a figure that so exceeded the Colombian government’s expectations that emergency accommodation had to be found…including, apparently, a few nights...