Last year CTC organized a Adopt-a-Coral activity to mark Coral Triangle Day wherein dive operators, hotels and other businesses in Sanur adopted baby corals and transplanted these on an artificial reef structure to grow and help to restore coral reefs in the Sanur channel. We have recently checked the progress of our baby corals and…
CTC organized a movie night showing the Emmy- Award winning movie “Mission Blue” at its office in Sanur. The inspiring documentary about the life and work of the world famous oceanographer Sylvia Earle was a perfect fit with this month’s World Oceans, World Environment and of course the Coral Triangle Day. The event, held in…
CTC is once again honored to collaborate with partners for this year’s Coral Triangle Day celebrations, an annual, open-sourced event that brings together individuals, organizations, and establishments on one special day of the year to shed light on ocean conservation and the numerous ways to protect and conserve the world’s epicenter of marine biodiversity –…
We at Coral Triangle Center were excited to host several Australian Volunteers for International Development (AVID) at our office in Bali this month for some talks on marine conservation in Indonesia and the Coral Triangle as well as fun-learning activities through our homegrown board game Aquatico. Our current AVID volunteer Hamish Cameron also gave a…
As part of the implementation of USAID’s Sustainable Ecosystems Advanced (SEA) Project, CTC traveled to Manokwari in West Papua this month to conduct a perception survey and capacity building assessment about marine conservation and sustainable fisheries. CTC conducted the survey on May 1-13, 2017 in two districts namely Sorong Selatan and Teluk Bintuni, with 137…
Coral Triangle Center, in collaboration with Bottle for Botol, hosted fun-learning activities for 35 school children at the Sanur Sunday Market at Mercure Hotel last April 30, 2017. The activities included short lectures about the marine conservation and the impact of plastic waste in the environment, followed by a marine animal origami-making contest and a…
Fifty school children from Nusa Lembongan came together on April 21, 2017 to mark Earth Day by keeping the island’s beaches free from plastic debris. The school children, all girl students from Sekolah Dasar Negeri 1 and 3 Jungutbatu and Sekolah Dasar Negeri 1, 2 and 3 Nusa Lembongan, gathered in Mushroom Bay for fun…
CTC, in collaboration with Bali Hai Cruises and Mars Foundation, hosted members and families of the Indonesia Young Presidents Organization in Nusa Lembongan on April 14, 2017 for a day of coral transplantation, snorkeling, diving, and mangrove planting. The event began with the participants attaching 60 coral fragments to spider structures developed by Mars Foundation,…
For the second year in a row, CTC joined the Asia Dive Expo (ADEX) in Suntec City, Singapore held on April 7-9, 2017. CTC hosted more than 200 visitors in our booth during the three-day event including renowned marine scientist Clive Wilkinson and met with Mission Blue Director Founder Dr. Sylvia Earle. We had lively…