From April 21–30 2026, Coral Triangle Center (CTC), together with Hatfield, Yayasan Baileo Maluku, and Yayasan Nusa Bahari Lestari (Sahari), conducted village-level kick-off meetings for the five-year Kalesang Banda Program across eight villages in the Banda Islands: Ay, Rhun, Hatta, Lonthoir, Selamon, Kampung Baru, Tanah Rata, and Rajawali. The meetings engaged 286 participants, including village…
Coral reefs are a lifeline for nearly a billion people, providing food security, livelihoods, and coastal protection. However, the escalating frequency of marine heatwaves is causing widespread coral die-offs, threatening marine biodiversity and the communities that depend on these ecosystems. While traditional conservation strategies focus on protecting reefs with lower thermal exposure, they often fail…
From January 21-23, 2025, CTC, in collaboration with Yayasan Cahaya Samudra Indonesia and local government, conducted a comprehensive waste management training for a women’s group in Rhun Island, within the Ay-Rhun Marine Protected Area (MPA), supported by the Sea Forward Ocean Health Fund. This initiative aimed to educate and empower women with the knowledge and…
From September 9-12, 2024, CTC participated in a workshop marking the closing of the Wallacea Partnership Program II, held in Manado, which was facilitated by Burung Indonesia. The event aimed to share lessons learned from each grantee’s projects. During the workshop, representatives from 43 grantee organizations had the opportunity to present their work to public…
From March 29 to April 30, 2024, CTC successfully conducted a learning exchange and dissemination of the lessons learned from the Banda Deep Sea Snapper Fisheries Project at Gedung OK Makatita in the Banda Islands. The two-day event marked a significant milestone in the efforts to conserve and sustainably manage fisheries resources, especially deep sea…
On January 29- 30, 2024, a consortium of non-governmental organizations, consisting of WWF-Indonesia, Coral Triangle Center, Rare, Yayasan Pesisr Lestari (YPL), Rekam, and Konservasi Indonesia, kicked off a new project aimed to collaboratively to advance an ambitious MPA and OECM agenda in Indonesia, in partnership with key government institutions and communities. The project, entitled Advancing…
CTC’s “Kalesang Dugong” project is currently underway in the Lease Islands Marine Protected Area (MPA) in Maluku. The latest activity was a perception survey about dugongs, their habitat, and community participation in their conservation in Saparua Island. The findings revealed that, despite the majority of respondents already being aware of the existence of dugongs in…
Good news from Maluku. Our Learning Sites team spotted a dugong swimming in waters near Booi Village in Saparua Island. At the same time, other team members also discovered dugongs’ feeding trails in the seagrass meadows around the islands, indicating that the charismatic animal may have a good chance of surviving and reproducing in the…
CTC successfully launched the “Kalesang Dugong” project in Saparua, Central Maluku, in collaboration with the Baileo Foundation and the Department of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (DKP) of the Maluku Province. The project aims to protect the charismatic endangered dugong (Dugong dugon) and its critical habitat in the Lease Islands marine protected area (MPA). The series…