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KL Team Updates: April – June 2025
KL Team Updates: April - June 2025Masterclass at the National Climate Governance Summit 2025In April, RCM had the honour of setting up a booth at the National Climate Governance Summit 2025 — a powerful platform to amplify awareness on marine conservation, with a...
Cintai Redang: January – March 2025
Sabah Community Empowerment Leadership Camp (CELC)In February, Matdin (a member of RMCG) and Muhaimin (RCM Redang staff) participated in the 2025 Sabah CELC (Sabah Community Environmental Leadership Camp) program. They had the...
Sabah Updates: January – March 2025
Kota Kinabalu mapping critical marine data in sabahIn February, our colleagues participated in the second Sabah’s Shoreline Management Plan workshop, initiated by the Environment Protection Department of Sabah and organised by DHI. A map of critical data on the...
Cintai Mersing: January – March 2025
Mooring Buoys Installation Five mooring buoys were installed at Pulau Harimau, Pulau Hujung, and Pulau Besar in collaboration with the Mersing District Council, FS Marine Boat Service and snorkelling operators. The installation of these mooring buoys helps prevent...
South of Johor: January – March 2025
Intertidal Walk with SMK Pengerang UtamaIn December, 30 Form 4 students, along with four teachers and two PITSB volunteers, participated in an intertidal walk session at Desaru Beach to observe and experience marine life up close in the low-tide...
Cintai Tioman: January – March 2025
This year's monsoon season has brought great challenges to the marine ecosystem: large waves, heavy rain, and strong winds have caused coastal erosion and swept several trees into the sea. RCM together with the TMCG successfully removed three trees that had drifted...
Julian’s Thoughts
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...
Reflections On Ocean Month
World Reef Day is celebrated on the 1st of June every year The ocean covers over 70% of the planet. It supports humanity’s sustenance and that of every other organism on Earth. The ocean produces at least 50% of the planet’s oxygen; it is home to most of Earth’s...
Building Up Resilience in our Coral Reefs
In my last post, I talked about “building resilience” – in fact, that was one of the recommendations in our 2022 Annual Coral Survey Report for Malaysia. But how do we actually go about doing that?Resilience factorsAccording to colleagues who know more about coral...
Advocacy and Public Policy
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