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Cintai Tioman: July – September 2025
Cintai Tioman: July - September 2025Conservation Activities with VolunteersIn July, ETIKA HOLDINGS made their visit to Tioman Island for the thrid consecutive year. Over three days of volunteering, participants took part in various activities, including helping to...
Sabah Updates (April – June 2025)
Sabah Updates: April - June 2025Annual Reef Check SurveysHere is a quick recap of the surveys we conducted in the last quarter around Sabah: In April, our RCM colleagues and a volunteer conducted the surveys at 12 sites around Mantanani Island. 2 fish bomb explosions...
Cintai Redang (April – June 2025)
Cintai Redang Updates: April - June 2025Skills UpgradeOur RCM colleague on Redang, Muhaimin, had the opportunity to undergo the Green Fins assessor training in Tioman Island in April. Following the course, Muhaimin is now a certified Green Fins assessor who will be...
Cintai Mersing: April – June 2025
Cintai Mersing: April - June 2025Sustainable Tourism Programmes in MersingOur colleagues have been conducting assessments of resorts in Mersing based on the ASEAN Green Hotel Standards. Three resorts on Pulau Besar and Pulau Sibu were assessed in this past quarter,...
South of Johor: April – June 2025
South of Johor: April - June 2025Monitoring of Mangrove SaplingsOur colleagues have been monitoring the growth of the 70 mangrove saplings planted by school students in February near Kampung Pasir Gogok. This activity marked the next phase of the mangrove pilot...
Cintai Tioman: April – June 2025
Tioman Updates: April - June 2025Sustainable Tourism EffortsFor the past few years, our team has been assessing resorts and chalets on Tioman Island to encourage more environmentally friendly operations. These assessments follow the ASEAN Green Hotel Standard and...
Julian’s Thoughts
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...
Advocacy and Public Policy
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