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Sabah Updates: July – September 2024
tackling coral bleaching around sabahIn the last three months, our colleagues in Sabah have been conducting coral bleaching monitoring in many sites, with results that show varying levels of bleaching. The surveys were done with the help of members of our Community...
Cintai Mersing: July – September 2024
Guardians of the Coast: United for Beach and Underwater Clean-UpsBetween July and September, our Mersing team conducted and co-organised four underwater clean-ups at Pulau Tinggi, Pulau Besar and Pulau Harimau and removed a total of 293kg of ghost nets and marine...
South of Johor: July – September 2024
Hands-On Marine and Ecosystem Education for South of Johor's YouthThis quarter, we conducted several indoor and outdoor education and awareness programmes for the two schools we work with. We engaged with almost 70 students from SK Kampung Baru Pasir Gogok in several...
Cintai Tioman: July – September 2024
Monthly Monitoring Safeguards Coral Reef Health Every month, members of the Tioman Marine Conservation Group (TMCG) carry out regular monitoring and cleaning at the reef rehabilitation sites to check on the growth and health of the corals. In order to protect corals...
Kod Blue: Laut Needs You 2024
Kod Blue 2024 volunteers all ready to do their cleanups Reef Check Malaysia’s Kod Blue: Laut Needs You 2024 (Kod Blue 2024) is part of the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) effort. This is the second year RCM has organised this event, which included activities such...
Cintai Redang: July – September 2024
Skills Training to Contribute to Marine Conservation ActivitiesIn July and August, 7 members of the Redang Marine Conservation Group (RMCG) completed their training and are now certified EcoDivers. The training was conducted in three sessions at DM Scuba Dive Centre...
Julian’s Thoughts
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...
Tioman Island, 20 Years Later
I just spent a few days on Tioman island, one of the islands off Malaysia’s East coast (yeah, I know how lucky I am). With me were a couple of old friends who used to dive with me back in the day when I ran a dive centre on the island (yeah, I really do know how lucky...
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