The surveillance team of the Bali Marine Conservation Management Unit and the Water Police Unit of Klungkung District, supported by CTC, conducted a routine resource use monitoring (RUM) survey in the Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area (MPA) on April 21, 2021. During the survey, the team...
Have you ever been involved in a restoration program where you tied baby corals onto a structure to be put underwater? Did you have the chance to come back a year later to see how the corals had grown? Nowadays, some would think that...
Since the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) of the Republic of Indonesia published the use of the Conservation Area Management Effectiveness Evaluation (EVIKA) as a new tool in marine protected area (MPA) management earlier this year, CTC has played an active role in...
Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues affecting marine biodiversity and ecosystems in Banda Islands, Maluku. To increase public awareness about the dangers of plastic waste, CTC and other related key stakeholders in the Banda Islands held a waste management...
In early April, CTC signed a cooperation agreement with the Directorate General of Capture Fisheries of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (DGCF-MMAF) of the Republic of Indonesia regarding capacity building for Fisheries Management Institutions in the Fisheries Management Area (FMI-FMA) of the Republic...
Kirana Agustina & Nanda Asridian Noor met at World Resources Institute Indonesia, but it’s the ocean that brought them together. It was never expected that Nanda’s first contact with Kirana through an email with warm virtual handshake during a Coral Triangle Regional Forum in Bali,...
On Monday, March 29 we collaborated with Jenggala Keramik in hosting an event to celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day that featured a sharing session about the women leaders behind the Coral Universe. This ‘I Love Monday’ event, hosted by our Events and...
Beginning this year, CTC is embarking on a new collaborative project in the Nusa Penida MPA called the “Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program – Coral Triangle Initiative (COREMAP–CTI). The project is funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF),...
We are pleased to share a recently published paper on MPA management in Indonesia with our Learning Site Manager as lead author. Download the paper from this link: “Bird’s Head Seascape Marine Protected Area network – Preventing biodiversity and ecosystem service loss amidst rapid change...
The ecosystems of the Arafura and Timor Seas (ATS) play an important ecological and economic role for the countries bordering its waters, which include Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Thus, collaboration is urgently needed to ensure their protection. In March 2021, CTC,...
