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Cintai Redang: July – September 2025

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...

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...

Julian’s Thoughts

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...

Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: Target 22

Local communities should be involved in decisions on the management of natural resources that may affect their livelihoods After a busy few months focusing on a proposed airport development on Tioman Island, it’s appropriate to return to the post-2020 Global...

Tioman Airport Decision: A Watershed in Biodiversity Conservation?

The decision last week by the Malaysian government to shelve the proposed airport development on Tioman island is both welcome, and timely, for many reasons. Conserving Tioman’s natural resourcesThe most immediate and important reason, of course, is that it paves the...

Nuance or Sledgehammer: What’s the Best Communication Technique?

It’s not often that epistemology, empiricism and the use and descriptions of words, and how they are used, creeps into my pieces. But today it did. A little.I was reading this piece in the Guardian while sipping my morning tea:The headline for the article reads: As...

Is It Warm Enough For Ya?

Some people believe that “bad news” messages turn an audience off. No one wants to hear depressing stuff. But sometimes, I think, we need to do just that – put the facts out there because things are so serious that we can’t bury our heads in the sand anymore.That was...

Advocacy and Public Policy

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