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Cintai Redang: April – June 2024
RMCG’s various clean up efforts In April, our colleagues and members of the Redang Marine Conservation Group (RMCG) came together to remove a reported ghost net weighing 40kg. Following this dive, they also managed to remove almost 70 Crown-of-Thorns starfish, whose...
South of Johor: April – June 2024
collaborative efforts to advance education and awareness programsOur colleagues began this quarter by conducting two separate meetings with SMK Pengerang Utama and SK Kampung Baru Pasir Gogok, to discuss the proposed school awareness programme and activities for the...
Sabah Updates: April – June 2024
tackling coral bleaching in sabahAs you may already know, RCM staff in all our locations have been actively monitoring coral bleaching. In Sabah, we’ve been working closely with local stakeholders, NGOs, and governmental organisations such as Sabah Parks, for both our...
Cintai Tioman: April – June 2024
annual reef health monitoring reveal bleached sitesOver in Tioman Island, our team of RCM colleagues, together with the Department of Fisheries Malaysia (DoF), volunteer EcoDivers and members of the Tioman Marine Conservation Group (TMCG) recently completed the annual...
Cintai Mersing: April – June 2024
annual Reef Check Surveys capture coral bleachingOur colleagues were joined by EcoDivers from among the local community of Sibu Island as we kicked off our annual Reef Check surveys in the Mersing Islands. Additionally, with the support from the divers from Department...
Cintai Redang: January – March 2024
2024 marks the second year since RCM began working in Redang Island. Let’s look back and some of our achievements on the island in 2023:6 Redang Marine Conservation Group (RMCG) members received their Open Water Dive license5 RMCG members are now EcoDivers and are...
Julian’s Thoughts
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...
So Many Days….
On Saturday 11th June, I participated in a beach clean-up organised by one of our long-time sponsors, Sime Darby Foundation. They have been supporting our work on Tioman island for eight years and we are now working to get the island up to speed for accreditation to...
Co-management: A game changer in marine resource management in Malaysia?
In two recent articles, I have discussed Reef Check Malaysia’s marine resource conservation programmes with local communities in three locations around Malaysia. I have covered the importance of resilience in long term reef conservation, and the role that...
Linking resilience, livelihoods and reef management
Reef Check Malaysia is currently operating long-term marine resource conservation programmes in three locations: Tioman island, Mantanani island and the Johor islands. We also have on-going programmes – such as our annual coral reef monitoring survey programme – that...
Advocacy and Public Policy
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