Coral Triangle Center hosted high-level government officials from Bangladesh on March 29-30, 2017 for a learning visit at our office in Sanur, Bali and a one-day field learning trip to Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area (MPA). The delegation included Honorable Narayan Chandra Chanda, Minister of Fisheries and Livestock (MOFL), Bangladesh Ambassador to Indonesia Major General Azmal Kabir….
CTC successfully conducted the second phase of a perception survey about marine conservation and sustainable fisheries under the full support of USAID Sustainable Ecosystems Advanced (SEA) Project in North Maluku Province, Indonesia, from February 27 to March 17, 2017. Similar to the pilot held in Maluku before, this activity covered three districts in North Maluku with…
On March 27-31, 2017, SEANET Indonesia kicked off a week of training for SeaNet officers and implementing partners to introduce the scope of the project and its relation to Fisheries Management Area 718, sociocultural condition of target communities and to learn basic fisheries science. During the training, SeaNet officers also learned how to engage, to…
CTC conducted a biophysic and socio-economic survey in three islands within Sula Regency in North Maluku on March 17 to 27, 2017 to collect data and study the feasibility of establishing marine protected areas (MPAs) in these sites as part of the USAID Sustainable Ecosystems Advanced (SEA) Project implementation. These included Sulawesi, Northeast Mangoli and…
On March 14-17, 2017, CTC hosted escape room designers Aram Leeuw and Frank Kastelein from the Netherlands for a workshop to further develop CTC’s Escape Room: “SOS from the Deep”. CTC staff joined the workshop to provided inputs to the escape room concept and design as well as the knots and bolts of the room construction….
CTC traveled to Dili, Timor-Leste in February 2017 to conduct preliminary stakeholder consultation for a new three-year project that will support the establishment of Atauro Island as a new marine protected area. During the stakeholders meeting, CTC met with government officials as well as local non-government organizations that are working on marine conservation in Timor-Leste…
On March 7-9, 2017, CTC Executive Director Rili Djohani attended the CTI-CFF Partners meeting in Sydney, Australia to discuss priority activities that will be undertaken to support the CTI-CFF Regional Plan of Action as well as capture success stories of past programs and show case activities at the upcoming UN Ocean Conference in New York.. The…