Climate Action Malaysia Project #37985

Protect Coral Reefs in Malaysia

by Reef Check Malaysia

Project Report | Feb 27, 2020
Tioman Marine Conservation in February

By Theresa Ng | Programme Development Manager

In the month of February 2020, our team on Tioman Island along with the trained locals in Tioman Marine Conservation Group (TMCG) conducted the following marine conservation activities:

We removed 4 ghost nets
We removed one illegal and discarded Fish Aggregating Device
We cleaned up oil spill on one beach. The oil spill was relatively minor and the clean-up involved the local government.
We eliminated 80 Crown-of-Thorns starfish (coral predator) from two dive sites. Currently, there seems to be an outbreak of these coral predators. We will have to revisit these sites and a couple more sites in the next couple of weeks to monitor the progress of the Crown-of-Thorns starfish. Local villagers and dive centres were involved in this activity.
We installed 9 new mooring lines at dive and snorkel sites to prevent boat anchoring on coral reefs.

Furthermore, there was bad, stormy and rainy weather (tail end of the monsoon season), hence limiting what we could do.

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