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Semporna Updates: April – June 2026
Semporna Updates: April - June 2026Pioneering Seaweed RestorationA community-led conservation group from Pulau Selakan is playing a key role in Malaysia's first tropical eucheumatoid seaweed restoration project, led by Universiti Malaya in collaboration with Reef...
Policy and Advocacy Progress (January – March 2026)
Policy and Advocacy Progress: January - March 2026 Plastics Policy and ActionFrom January to March 2026, Reef Check Malaysia worked with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the University of Bern to better understand how plastic...
South of Johor Updates: January – March 2026
South of Johor Updates: January - March 2026 Looking Ahead in Pasir GogokIn Kampung Pasir Gogok, a recent town hall brought the community together to talk about what’s happening along their coastline and what can be done next. Residents shared what they’ve been seeing...
Kota Kinabalu & Mantanani Updates: January – March 2026
Kota Kinabalu and Cintai Mantanani Updates: January - March 2026KOTA KINABALUTraining Guides for Safer SeasIn Kota Kinabalu, 10 new Eco-Friendly Snorkel Guides (EFSGs) recently completed their training in Manukan Island, picking up both safety skills and a better...
Semporna Updates: January – March 2026
Semporna Updates: January - March 2026 Shaping a Community Protocol in Larapan IslandRecently, members of the Larapan Marine Conservation Group (LMCG) and the local Community Protocol Committee came together for a follow-up workshop to refine the Community Protocol -...
Cintai Tioman Updates: January – March 2026
Cintai Tioman Updates: January - March 2026 Building Community AwarenessThis quarter, we worked with both students and community members to build a better understanding of marine ecosystems and what it means to protect them. In our session with students from SMK...
Julian’s Thoughts
Bridging the Gap: Mechanisms to Enable More Holistic Marine Resource Management
Effective Management of Marine ParksI 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...
Community Marine Conservation Groups – Coming of Age
Community Marine Conservation Groups – Coming of AgeReef Check Malaysia (RCM) has long championed the cause of local communities having a role in managing protected areas, whether terrestrial or marine. The establishment of protected areas to manage and conserve...
(Part II) The Results of the 2024 Reef Check Surveys: Challenges and Opportunities
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 outlined...
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...
Advocacy and Public Policy
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