Indonesian National Working Competency Standards (SKKNI) for marine protected areas (MPAs) are needed to standardize the competency of MPA staff. Currently there are three SKKNI available for managing MPAs: Marine Tourism Management in MPAs, Outreach in MPAs, and Monitoring and Evaluation of Coastal Resources. However,...
The CTC team periodically monitors the health of coral reef ecosystems in our learning sites, such as the Nusa Penida MPA and Banda Islands MPA Network. The reef health monitoring aims to assess the condition of coral cover, and reef fish species and biomass. Raw...
During the last week of December 2019, the CTC Center for Marine Conservation received two groups from Pandatrip. The group of Chinese students, ranging from three to 15 years old and accompanied by their parents, came to our center to learn about coral species and...
A second escape room is coming to the CTC Center for Marine Conservation in 2020! Building on the success of our first escape room “SOS from the Deep”, CTC will soon launch our latest escape room, focused on plastic pollution. This new escape room will...
CTC has been collaborating with the Green Fins program to support sustainable marine tourism practices in Indonesia. As the coordinator of Green Fins Indonesia since 2018, CTC is responsible for assessing dive operators before they officially become active members of Green Fins. As of December...
All of our team gathered in Surakarta, Centra Java on December 12-14 to share lessons learned from the year. The first day started with a discussion in which we all shared stories from our work in the field, planned ahead for 2020, as well as...
To build local capacity to manage fisheries through an ecosystem based approach, the CTC team conducted an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) Training for Widyaiswara and Instructors in fisheries management areas (FMAs) 715, 714 and 712 in early December. The training was...
As greenhouse gas emissions drive changes in global ocean chemistry and temperature, how will corals respond? This is the type of question being addressed in the National Sea Simulator, a world-class marine research aquarium facility housed in the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in...
As part of our continuing collaboration with Bali WISE to deliver a training program on basic marine ecology and sustainable tourism, we conducted a training session with Bali WISE students on December 3. There were 25 Bali WISE students who joined the training at CTC...
Through ecological and socio-economic surveys in 2017, the Sula Islands were identified as home to sea turtles, in particular the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). The coast of Fatkauyon Village was indicated as a feeding location for green and hawksbill turtles,...
