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KL Team Updates: April – June 2025
KL Team Updates: April - June 2025Masterclass at the National Climate Governance Summit 2025In April, RCM had the honour of setting up a booth at the National Climate Governance Summit 2025 — a powerful platform to amplify awareness on marine conservation, with a...
Cintai Redang: January – March 2025
Sabah Community Empowerment Leadership Camp (CELC)In February, Matdin (a member of RMCG) and Muhaimin (RCM Redang staff) participated in the 2025 Sabah CELC (Sabah Community Environmental Leadership Camp) program. They had the...
Sabah Updates: January – March 2025
Kota Kinabalu mapping critical marine data in sabahIn February, our colleagues participated in the second Sabah’s Shoreline Management Plan workshop, initiated by the Environment Protection Department of Sabah and organised by DHI. A map of critical data on the...
Cintai Mersing: January – March 2025
Mooring Buoys Installation Five mooring buoys were installed at Pulau Harimau, Pulau Hujung, and Pulau Besar in collaboration with the Mersing District Council, FS Marine Boat Service and snorkelling operators. The installation of these mooring buoys helps prevent...
South of Johor: January – March 2025
Intertidal Walk with SMK Pengerang UtamaIn December, 30 Form 4 students, along with four teachers and two PITSB volunteers, participated in an intertidal walk session at Desaru Beach to observe and experience marine life up close in the low-tide...
Cintai Tioman: January – March 2025
This year's monsoon season has brought great challenges to the marine ecosystem: large waves, heavy rain, and strong winds have caused coastal erosion and swept several trees into the sea. RCM together with the TMCG successfully removed three trees that had drifted...
Bridging the Gap: Mechanisms to Enable More Holistic Marine Resource Management
Effective Management of Marine Parks I think pretty much everyone reading this would agree that managing protected areas effectively is as important as establishing them in the first place. Otherwise, you end up with what are called “paper parks”. The concept of...
Sabah Updates: October – December 2024
KOTA KINABALURCM’s TEAM AT VARIOUS STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS In October, RCM Attended the ‘Darvel Bay Scientific Technical Working Group Zoning Workshop’ organised by Sabah Parks and WWF-Malaysia. The workshop discussed the management framework that has four Focus Areas:...
Cintai Redang: October – December 2024
Clean-ups around RedangIn mid-October, 8 members of the RMCG conducted an underwater clean-up around the Redang Jetty. 4 members went underwater to collect the rubbish on their dives, while the other 4 stayed on the surface for support and to bring the rubbish back to...
Cintai Mersing: October – December 2024
HOPE FOR OUR CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMThis year, our team conducted monthly reef rehabilitation monitoring and maintenance of the previously installed artificial structures at Pulau Sibu and Pulau Besar. The results have been encouraging, as the transplanted corals...
Walking Away from COP 16: What Changed, What Didn’t, and What’s Next
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...
Reflections on my trip to Hawaii
EcoDiver Training in HawaiiI’ve been in Hawaii for two weeks now, helping a fledgling Reef Check Hawaii to get established. I haven’t actually done much training recently – or diving, come to that! But it’s been reassuring that it comes back quickly!Diving here is...
Reef Check Malaysia will be attending COP 16
Representing Biodiversity at COP 16 So this is exciting news: I will be representing Reef Check Malaysia at COP 16 in Cali, Colombia from 21st October to 1st November! I will join our partners, Pacific Environment and the other ASEAN team members from Thailand,...
Rivers of Waste: It’s Time We Take Responsibility
We can put a man on the moon, but…We can’t keep our rivers clean?Today I had an opportunity to visit the interceptors near the river mouth of the Klang River. What an eye-opening experience.Thanks to the team at The Ocean Cleanup for showing us around, and to our good...
Making Community-based Conservation Real: CMCGs
Community-based ConservationNumerous reports and publications highlight the importance of involving local stakeholders in conservation of natural resources. There is plenty of evidence to indicate that conservation outcomes are improved if the people who rely on the...
Our Corals Are Bleaching – How We Can Save Them
Our Corals Are BleachingI recently wrote about the coral bleaching that is happening right now around Malaysia. Since that post just a few days ago, monitoring data has shown that in some areas up to 80% of corals are bleaching.What are we doing now?Managing Coral...
Our Oceans are in a World of Pain – time to celebrate World Oceans Day
It’s One OceanThe ocean? The oceans? We can’t even find the right words to describe our lungs, supermarket and waste disposal system. Because that’s what the ocean is.In fact, we don’t even have a consistent answer for how many there are – when I was a kid it was...
Coral Resilience: Understanding the Challenges and Roadblocks – A Candid Discussion
Coral Resilience? Again?You: Resilience? Again?Me: Yep.You: Why? Isn’t it getting boring?You: Nope. More like frustrating.You: Care to explain?You: Sure.Coral Bleaching Is HappeningOver the last couple of weeks, various sources have confirmed the emergence of the...
Reef Check Malaysia – About More Than Just Coral Reefs
The Growth of Reef Check Malaysia One of the most fascinating things to me about my work at RCM has been the way that the organisation has evolved over the years – both in size and in the work that it does. A young me, with a mission and vision to save Malaysia’s...
Paying The Price of Biodiversity
So pretty much everyone agrees: we need to conserve biodiversity Everybody is talking about biodiversity and the need to conserve it. But who is going to pay???The Sustainable Development Goals talk about it; the Malaysian National Policy on Biological Diversity is...