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Cintai Tioman: July – September 2025

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 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 (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 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 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

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

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...

Building Resilience for Long Term Reef Health

Building Resilience for Long Term Reef Health

Resilience? Again?Yes, those of you who have read my posts before will notice that I have talked about resilience before (here and here). So why am I speaking about it again?Because I believe that ensuring our reefs – and other marine ecosystems – are resilient is...

How Resilient is Malaysia’s Tourism Model?

Happy Global Tourism Resilience Day! Tourism is in the news again. It’s Global Tourism Resilience Day on Saturday (more below), which is a nice juxtaposition to recent local happenings. Just a few days ago (11th February), the Malay Mail carried an article with the...

Reef Check Malaysia Welcoming 2024

Our vision remains the same: sustainably managed coral reefs in Malaysia. If 2023 ended with a flurry of activity, 2024 has started with a bang! Some years come to a quiet end as programmes are put on hold during the monsoon season. Not so 2023! All our teams, in...

Wrapping Up 2023 and Looking Forward to 2024

Reflections on COP 28COP 28 did reach an agreement – which seemed unlikely just 2-3 days ago! Is it strong enough to push the urgent changes needed to restrict global heating to the 1.5oC scientists tell us is necessary? That remains to be seen. But at least a...

Is Malaysia Becoming A Mass Tourism Destination?

Overcrowded islands are going to downgrade the tourist experience. First it was Tioman and the proposal for a new airport. Then there were rumblings about extending the airport at Redang…then we heard about two new resorts at Perhentian Island…and the latest – a...

Advocacy and Public Policy

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