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Cintai Mersing Updates: October – December 2025
Cintai Mersing Updates: October - December 2025Mersing Islands Recycling ProgrammeThe Recycling Program in the Mersing Islands was implemented to encourage proper waste segregation and recycling practices among local communities and visitors. Throughout 2025, a total...
Cintai Tioman Updates: October – December 2025
Cintai Tioman Updates: October - December 2025Conservation Partnership2025 marks the third consecutive year of Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia’s support and commitment towards conservation efforts on Tioman Island. Their long-term partnership has been instrumental in...
South of Johor: July – September 2025
South of Johor: July - September 2025Stakeholder Engagement MeetingsReef Check Malaysia (RCM) held three stakeholder meetings with local schools and the Majlis Perbandaran Pengerang (MPP) to plan future conservation activities. Teachers from SMK Pengerang Utama and SK...
Cintai Mersing: July – September 2025
Cintai Mersing: July - September 2025Awareness Programs with Local CommunitiesBetween July and September, two community awareness programmes were held to promote marine conservation in the Mersing Islands. Over 100 visitors visited Reef Check Malaysia’s exhibition...
Sabah Updates: July – September 2025
Sabah Updates: July - September 2025KOTA KINABALUOur team in Kota Kinabalu has been actively engaging local schools and college students through various education and awareness programmes. In July, we conducted a marine education session with three primary schools,...
Cintai Redang: July – September 2025
Cintai Redang: July - September 2025Education and Awareness with Local SchoolOur education and awareness programmes continue to grow in reach and impact. A total of 80 students and teachers from SK Pulau Redang joined a session on coral reef biology, learning about...
Julian’s Thoughts
The Results of the 2024 Reef Check Surveys: Challenges and Opportunities
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 are not...
From a Broken Leg to Stronger Community Participation: A Year in Review
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
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...
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