by admin | Dec 31, 2025 | Julian's Thoughts
Reef Check Malaysia’s 2025 As 2025 comes to a close, it’s traditional to look back on the year’s events – and look forward to the coming year. 2025 has been as busy a year as I can remember! Lots of great things happening, and I think we are laying a solid...
by admin | Oct 30, 2025 | Julian's Thoughts
To Close, or Not to Close…That Is The Question… Ok, paraphrasing Shakespeare is a cheap shot, but it just seemed appropriate. So, What’s The Problem? I’m referring, of course, to the recent closure of a number of islands off the East coast of Johor, near the town of...
by admin | Sep 30, 2025 | Julian's Thoughts
Is It Just Me? Is it just me, or is the world going bonkers? Without looking at your computer screen…what is today’s date? ….. I can wait… ….. 30th September? You’re kidding, right? I mean – what happened to the year??? It was June just yesterday…now I’m talking about...
by admin | Aug 28, 2025 | Julian's Thoughts
Islanders Squeezed Out by Mainland Boatmen We were invited by Macaranga to share our views on overtourism on Redang Island, which was first published in Macaranga here: https://www.macaranga.org/islanders-squeezed-out-by-mainland-boatmen/#more-36839...
by admin | Jul 9, 2025 | Julian's Thoughts
Reef Check Malaysia held a UN Ocean Conference Side Event I recently posted some thoughts about the UN Oceans Conference, which was held earlier this month in Nice, France. Not many people will know (until now!) that Reef Check Malaysia hosted a “side-event” webinar...
by Liyana | Jun 13, 2025 | Julian's Thoughts
The UN Ocean Conference 2025As “the world” gathers in Nice this week for the UN Ocean Conference 2025, it is perhaps a good time to pause and reflect on just why there is such a thing as an ocean conference.Last week I was privileged to be invited by the Sunway Centre...