We recently celebrated the 3rd Anniversary of Kedai Kopi Hilly our coffee shop located in the Center for Marine Conservation. We marked the event on March 4, 2022 with a small gathering of CTC friends and partners who collaborated to make a “Community Art Canvas” – a collaborative live painting session wherein participants, led by…
CTC participated in the 6th Annual Bali’s Biggest Clean-Up by organizing a local event in Sanur this year. Together with local community group and private sectors, in just 30 minutes, we collected 49.25 kgs of non-organic trash and prevented it from being ended up in the ocean. The event was held on February 20, 2022…
Last month, CTC visited several Bali-based media partners and government public relations offices at provincial and district levels. The visit aims for promoting CTC’s agenda and work plans particularly on the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program – Coral Triangle Initiative (COREMAP-CTI) project implementation in the Nusa Penida island MPA that will help revive local…
On January 12, CTC hosted 13 students from Warmadewa University for a fun-learning class. As part of a field study program for Aquatic Resources Conservation Course, these students visited CTC Center for Marine Conservation to learn in more detail about managing marine protected areas. The students were also eager to learn about the role of…
Nuansa Pulau Community Group (Kelompok Nuansa Pulau/KNP) is a local environmental awareness community actively involved in coral restoration in Ped Village, Nusa Penida. Nuansa Pulau Community Group is in partnership with CTC throughout the year in establishing educational tools for local youths to understand coral reef ecosystems through a hands-on coral restoration program. The Coral…
CTC recently organized an online fun learning class for school children in the Coral Triangle on November 20, 2021, in line with the UN’s World Children’s Day. This year’s World Children’s Day encourages children to imagine a better world following the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. CTC aimed to inspire the next generation to envision…
Our children are the future, as the saying goes. With that in mind, CTC facilitated a fun and interactive coral restoration excursion in collaboration with Bali-based dive shop Joe’s Gone Diving. On November 3rd, 2021, nine brilliant junior divers from Green School received an introduction to coral biology and restoration taught by the members…
In an effort to share lessons learned and best practices in reef rehabilitation amongst practitioners, the Bali Reef Rehabilitation Network (BRRN) came together on August 20, 2021 to give an update on member-initiated rehabilitation projects around Bali. The Bali Reef Rehabilitation Network: Restoration Practices Webinar was attended by 121 participants from various organizations across Indonesia,…
Managing plastic waste continues to be a challenge, especially in remote, small islands across Indonesia and around the world. In response to this problem, CTC has provided a plastic waste shredding machine to the community of Ay Island as part of our support to manage the islands’ marine resources. The machine, whose shredding capacity could…