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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...
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...
Julian’s Thoughts
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...
Managing Marine Resources – Let’s Talk About It
Let’s talk about management…of marine resources, that is. The original idea for this article was to discuss how we are managing Marine Parks in Malaysia. But the scope quickly broadened out to include the question: which marine resources should we be managing? Are we...
Reef Check Malaysia’s 15th Anniversary
Today, 3rd August, marks the 15th anniversary of Reef Check Malaysia. Who would have thought that an organisation that started off with one full time staff would grow into an organisation with national programmes and field staff in four locations (and counting!!). Our...
The Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) – Where Are We?
Those of you following the news on biodiversity will already be aware of the snail’s pace progress of negotiations for a new Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Meetings in Geneva, Switzerland in March achieved little except to make the situation more...
Advocacy and Public Policy
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