It’s that time of year again! Our team was in the Banda Islands from the 3rd to 4th week of October to conduct the annual reef health and resource use monitoring for the Banda Islands Marine Protected Area (MPA) Network. The annual monitoring is done...
By Rizky Bagas Pranata, International Relations Student, Brawijaya University As a student at the University of Brawijaya, I was required to do an internship to try to implement my studies in the field of work and so it happened that I took 47 days of work...
Last October 18, CTC conducted a one-day course on facilitation techniques for 30 field fisheries officer and site managers of the Yayasan Masyarakat dan Perikanan Indonesia (MDPI), an NGO working on sustainable fisheries issues based in Bali. The training focused on enhancing the participants’...
CTC, in collaboration with Credit Suisse, held its 3rd fundraising event for this year on October 15, 2016 at the site of the planned CTC Center for Marine Conservation in Sanur, Bali. The event featured performances that merged art, science and conservation messages. The highlight was...
CTC hosted The Nature Conservancy (TNC) CEO Mark Tercek, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropy CEO Christine Morse and senior staff from both organizations on Oct. 6-7, 2016.  They visited the CTC office in Sanur, spent a full day in the Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area and...
The Nusa Penida MPA Management Unit, together with CTC, Nusa Penida Water Police, and the Indonesian Navy conducted joint patrols on September 5 and September 27, 2016 and found zoning regulation violators. During the first patrol, the team found a fishing boat in the no-take...
CTC, in collaboration with the Indonesia Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) Fisheries Education and Training Center, conducted a training on sustainable marine tourism on September 26-29, 2016 in Ambon. The training aimed to develop potential marine tourism sites and ensure that these are...
A dive operator that was found responsible for the vandalism of corals in Nusa Penida MPA was asked to rehabilitate 1 hectare of coral reefs as penalty for its illegal act. The punishment was handed during a meeting on September 21, 2016 attended by the Ministry...
CTC and its partner Credit Suisse held 2nd fundraising event at the Dharmawangsa Hotel in Jakarta on September 20, 2016. The event highlight included a Wayang Samudra performance from the Komunitas Lima Gunung puppeteers from Magelang. The wayang performance was complimented by a dance performance from one...
CTC Learning Sites Manager Marthen Welly travelled to Dumaguete, Philippines on September 12-15, 2016 to share CTC’s sustainable tourism initiatives at the 6th Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF) Marine Protected Area Regional Exchange. During the conference, Marthen presented some...
