CTC’s Center for Marine Conservation is so excited to welcome you back! Starting on November 4, 2021, we have opened our doors to the public and our facilities are open regularly from Monday to Sunday. Join our fun learning activities and the creative workshops we offer,...
At CTC’s Center for Marine Conservation, we provide a variety of courses that allow people to learn and discover the rich marine biodiversity. We offer Bali diving courses through CTC’s Coral Diving School in collaboration with SSI. The courses are taught by leading marine conservationists...
Blue swimming crab (BSC) fishers in Indonesia, though they produced more than 50,000 metric tonnes of BSC volume in 2020, constantly fight to make a living wage. They face low prices and competition from small-scale and traditional fishers. Encouragingly, however, the empowerment of women fishers...
With their unique appearance and behaviors, charismatic marine megafauna such as sharks, manta rays and cetaceans (whales and dolphins) are interesting to watch. However, if not done carefully, this kind of marine tourism can create stress for these animals and even kill them. Therefore, tourists...
Determining a suitable site is an important aspect of a successful restoration project. CTC assisted Mars Sustainable Solutions (MSS), Nusa Dua Reef Foundation (NDRF) and Bali Hai Cruise (BHC) on October 13-14, 2020 in determining the best location to relocate previous Reef Stars that have...
We’ve recently received good news from the surveillance team in the Nusa Penida marine protected area (MPA)! Apart from the increasing marine tourism activities and businesses slowly opening up, the surveillance team did not find any MPA zoning violations in the area. This regular monitoring activity,...
As part of our aim to inspire people to care for our ocean, we have partnered up with schools around Indonesia to spread ocean positive awareness! Through the network of schools we are building , CTC’s Center for Marine Conservation is offering fun learning classes online...
Did you know? On August 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report outlining the serious impacts of climate change that are already happening across the planet. The latest report serves as a reality check as it projects that in the...
Did you know? Last July 26 we celebrated International Mangrove Day. Did you know that mangroves help regulate our planet’s climate by storing large amounts of carbon, often called ‘blue carbon’? According to the IUCN, mangroves, together with tidal marshes and seagrasses, store more carbon...
In October 2021, the parties of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will meet in Kunming, China to agree on a new plan to safeguard the planet by 2050. In preparation for this, scientists, nongovernmental organizations, and government leaders have called for the...
