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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
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...
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