It is estimated that a total of 640,000 tons of discarded fishing gear are left in the ocean each year, according to a study released in 2018 by the World Animal Protection. These discarded fishing nets that have been left or lost in the ocean...
Did you know? Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been lost, abandoned, or discarded at sea and they are threatening our marine environment. Every year ghost nets are responsible for trapping and killing millions of marine animals including sharks, rays, fish, turtles, dolphins, whales,...
Since the establishment of CTC in 2010, through training and learning activities, CTC has more than 4,000 alumni from all over Indonesia and across the Coral Triangle. Eight years after the establishment of CTC, training alumni are returning to reflect on the impact of training...
CTC joined the delegates of the six member countries of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF) for a week-long meeting, held in Manila, Philippines, from 9-14 December 2018, to take stock of what the multilateral initiative has achieved to...
CTC's Green Fins assessors, Marthen Welly and Wira Sanjaya, assessed 3 dive operators in Komodo National Park to become the newest members of Green Fins Indonesia. The dive centers that were assessed included XPirate Dive Camp Komodo, Wunderpus Liveaboard, and Scuba Junkie Komodo. This brings...
On 29 November and 4 December 2018, primary students from the Green School Bali and Sanur Independent School came to visit the Center for Marine Conservation on a field trip to close off this semester's school program. There were 41 students from the Green School...
On 23 November 2018, the CTC welcomed the team from Hard Rock Hotel Bali at its Center for Marine Conservation in Sanur. Led by Hard Rock Hotel Bali General Manager Shane Coates, the team came for the ceremonial turnover of a donation amounting to Rp...
On 13 November 2018, the local community in Ay Island held a traditional "Sasi" opening ceremony. The festivities were initiated by members of the Sairun Village in collaboration with the CTC and local government officials in Maluku Province. During the last four years, the villagers...
First Person Account by Agustin Capriati and Benjamin Kahn More than a half of cetacean species are classified as vulnerable, endangered, and critically endangered on the IUCN Red List. This is due to many factors, mainly by anthropogenic activities such as entanglement in fishnets, marine pollution,...
Several TV stations have featured Coral Triangle Center's conservation activities and the Center for Marine Conservation’s art and science programs from November-December 2018. In November, we hosted Kompas Dewata Bali and TVRI Bali Bureau to talk about the state of coral reefs in Indonesia, on-the-ground...
