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Bridging the Gap: Mechanisms to Enable More Holistic Marine Resource Management
Effective Management of Marine Parks I think pretty much everyone reading this would agree that managing protected areas effectively is as important as establishing them in the first place. Otherwise, you end up with what are called “paper parks”. The concept of...
Sabah Updates: October – December 2024
KOTA KINABALURCM’s TEAM AT VARIOUS STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS In October, RCM Attended the ‘Darvel Bay Scientific Technical Working Group Zoning Workshop’ organised by Sabah Parks and WWF-Malaysia. The workshop discussed the management framework that has four Focus Areas:...
Cintai Redang: October – December 2024
Clean-ups around RedangIn mid-October, 8 members of the RMCG conducted an underwater clean-up around the Redang Jetty. 4 members went underwater to collect the rubbish on their dives, while the other 4 stayed on the surface for support and to bring the rubbish back to...
Cintai Mersing: October – December 2024
HOPE FOR OUR CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMThis year, our team conducted monthly reef rehabilitation monitoring and maintenance of the previously installed artificial structures at Pulau Sibu and Pulau Besar. The results have been encouraging, as the transplanted corals...
South of Johor: October – December 2024
Bringing Mangroves to Life: School-Based Nursery 28 students from Standards 1–3, along with 5 teachers and 2 PITSB (sponsors) volunteers, participated in a session to set up a mini mangrove nursery at SK Kampung Baru Pasir Gogok. The students and teachers prepared...
Cintai Tioman: October – December 2024
Successful completion of a year-long school programIn this final quarter, our Cintai Tioman team conducted 3 school programs with SK Mukut and SK Tekek, involving both indoor and outdoor activities. In 2024, we successfully conducted a total of 25 school education and...
Julian’s Thoughts
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...
Time to Focus on Resilience
Resilience based management is about adapting management actions to sustain ecosystems and social well-being. Resilience is a topic that we have covered before, but it’s worth revisiting because it is increasingly being used in coral reef conservation circles in the...
Advocacy and Public Policy
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