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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...
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...
Julian’s Thoughts
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...
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...
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