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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
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...
The 30×30 Target – The Forgotten Bit
In my previous post, I talked about the recent signing of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, and tried to describe the treaty in its entirety. Now it’s time to look at some of the details – and how we implement the treaty. That’s where the devil lies.The...
Overview of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
So that just happened, back before the holidays. After all the waiting, months – in fact, years – of delays, numerous rounds of meetings, political wrangling (and probably a bit of Machiavellian intrigue and plotting, thrown in for good measure too!!)…at the 11th...
Reef Check Malaysia Looking Back On 2022
The year 2022 has finally come to an end.If 2021 was the year of Covid, 2022 has been a year of recovery – and a huge increase in the tempo of our activities, with new programmes starting in Redang island and the Semporna islands in Sabah.In 2022 our survey programme...
How Serious Are We Really About Protecting Coral Reefs?
Coral reefs are sometimes described as “the rainforests of the sea”, a phrase used to capture the vast biodiversity that they harbour. But at the same time, they are often (mis-)treated as “the invisible ecosystem” because, unlike actual rainforests, they are to all...
Let’s Talk About Management (Part 2)
In an earlier post, I talked about the management of marine resources in Malaysia – what it is we are managing and some of the key challenges. I highlighted what I think are some gaps in management; this article looks at how we can fill some of those gaps. Defining...
Advocacy and Public Policy
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