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...
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...
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...
In November 2016, CTC was part of a team of artists, scientists, non-government organization workers who travelled along the small islands from Bali to Komodo to look at the impact of plastic pollution in these areas. The first of the stunning footage from that expedition...
As part of our efforts to promote sustainable marine tourism, Coral Triangle Center will again be joining the ADEX - Asia Dive Expo on April 7-9, 2017 in Singapore! Our Field Learning Sites Manager Marthen Welly will be one of the speakers at the Scuba 360 forum. We will also have...
A sobering but also inspiring Economist Ocean Summit held on February 22nd-24th 2017 in Nusa Dua, Bali with several side events on zero waste to oceans, saving the most resilient coral reefs in the world to financing a sustainable ocean economy, engaging millennials and showing...
Plastic trash that ends up in the ocean has been documented to affect more than 600 marine species worldwide, including 86% of all sea turtles, 44% of seabirds, and 43% of all marine mammal species. To further highlight this threat to our marine environment, CTC Executive Director...
The rainy season brings a lot of plastic trash in Bali's beaches and coasts. To further raise awareness about the impact of plastic pollution to our coastal and marine environment, Coral Triangle Center joined several beach clean ups this month. On February 17, 2017, CTC collaborated...
From January 30 to February 10, 2017, CTC successfully conducted the first phase of its perception survey under USAID’s Sustainable Ecosystems Advanced (SEA) Project in Maluku Province. The activity covered Ambon City and several districts in West Seram, Central Maluku, and East Seram. It included...
This month, CTC traveled to Buano and Morotai Islands in eastern Indonesia to look at possible new sites that could be developed into marine protected areas (MPAs). On February 8-11, 2017, CTC traveled to the northeastern coast of Maluku Province to visit a little-known but ecologically...
