CTC joined like-minded organizations and local community members for the Ocean Day festival on September 10, 2017 hosted by Genius Café at the Mercure Hotel in Sanur. The event aimed to raise awareness about the UN Sustainable Development Goal #14 “Life below water” as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goal #17 “Partnerships for the…
CTC Senior Advisor Johannes Subijanto (Pak Bi) passed away on August 26, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. Pak Bi was a conservationist in heart and soul who inspired many of us with his spirit and commitment for conservation. Working side by side to advance marine conservation in Indonesia and the Coral Triangle in the past few…
On Saturday August 26, 2017, we invited friends of CTC and board members to join us on a great day out to Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan. After a short introduction at our new Center for Marine Conservation about our recent projects and the Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area (MPA), we were picked up by…
Following its successful launch, CTC was very happy to host our friends and partners who attended the Coral Triangle Futures Think Tank workshop organized by WWF for a dinner at our new Center for Marine Conservation in Jalan Betngandang II, Sanur on August 14, 2017. We also welcomed the participants of the Community Based Resource…
CTC organized a training and competency assessment for the staff of the Nusa Penida MPA Management Unit on August 7-15, 2017. A total of 13 participants attended the training held in Nusa Penida, while 9 participants joined the competency assessment held in CTC’s Center for Marine Conservation in Sanur, Bali. The training aimed to provide the…
CTC, in collaboration with the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) and the Provincial Government of Maluku, organized a workshop on August 14-15, 2017 in Sanur, Bali, to strengthen the Banda Islands MPA Network. The workshop, which was attended by 16 participants representing local and district government, Banda Sea MPA Management Unit, University of…
CTC, in collaboration with Green Fins and partner dive companies, conducted a hands-on workshop on how to assess dive and snorkeling operators and issue the Green Fins certificate for sustainable diving and snorkeling from August 22-25, 2017 in Bali. The workshop was conducted by Green Fins Director James Harvey. Green Fins is an internationally recognized certification program…
CTC’s new learning center dedicated to marine conservation and training opened its doors on August 11, 2017 in Sanur, Bali aiming to reach 1.5 million people by 2020 to care for the oceans and those that depend on it. The first of its kind in Indonesia, the Center for Marine Conservation is a unique facility,…
CTC, in collaboration with Marine Megafauna Foundation completed a 2-day manta ray tagging workshop at our office in Sanur, Bali on August 3-4, 2017. This international collaboration aims to support the Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area (MPA) through the protection of manta rays using acoustic telemetry tagging and data collection, a method that provides scientists…