by Liyana | Jul 24, 2024 | Julian's Thoughts
Community-based ConservationNumerous reports and publications highlight the importance of involving local stakeholders in conservation of natural resources. There is plenty of evidence to indicate that conservation outcomes are improved if the people who rely on the...
by Liyana | Jun 12, 2024 | Julian's Thoughts
Our Corals Are BleachingI recently wrote about the coral bleaching that is happening right now around Malaysia. Since that post just a few days ago, monitoring data has shown that in some areas up to 80% of corals are bleaching.What are we doing now?Managing Coral...
by Liyana | Jun 11, 2024 | Julian's Thoughts
It’s One OceanThe ocean? The oceans? We can’t even find the right words to describe our lungs, supermarket and waste disposal system. Because that’s what the ocean is.In fact, we don’t even have a consistent answer for how many there are – when I was a kid it was...
by Liyana | May 7, 2024 | Julian's Thoughts
Coral Resilience? Again?You: Resilience? Again?Me: Yep.You: Why? Isn’t it getting boring?You: Nope. More like frustrating.You: Care to explain?You: Sure.Coral Bleaching Is HappeningOver the last couple of weeks, various sources have confirmed the emergence of the...
by Liyana | Apr 22, 2024 | Julian's Thoughts
The Growth of Reef Check Malaysia One of the most fascinating things to me about my work at RCM has been the way that the organisation has evolved over the years – both in size and in the work that it does. A young me, with a mission and vision to save Malaysia’s...
by Liyana | Apr 2, 2024 | Julian's Thoughts
So pretty much everyone agrees: we need to conserve biodiversity Everybody is talking about biodiversity and the need to conserve it. But who is going to pay???The Sustainable Development Goals talk about it; the Malaysian National Policy on Biological Diversity is...
