 | | | The CTI joins the United Nations and the rest of the world in observing World Ocean’s Day on June 8. On this day, we pay tribute to our oceans and marine resources that have nourished the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in our country and around the world. |
| | | Scientists with Conservation International (CI) have discovered nine potentially new marine species while conducting a survey of the waters surrounding the Indonesian island Bali. Among the discoveries are eight potentially new species of fish and a potentially new species of coral.
The marine survey, part of CI's 20-year-long Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) was conducted at the request of Bali's government to assess the health of the reefs. The survey, in addition to one previously conducted by CI in 2008, documented 953 species of fish and 397 species of coral, according to a press release from CI. |
| | | The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems.
This year theme, Water for cities: responding to the urban challenge, aims to spotlight and encourage governments, organizations, communities, and individuals to actively engage in addressing the challenges of urban water management.
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| | | CNN Features the high demand for Live Reef Fish Trade in Hong Kong and how it is negatively affecting the marine ecosystems in the Coral Triangle. |
| | | The Zoological Society of London has identified 10 coral species most in danger of becoming instinct including those in the Coral Triangle. |
| | | Indonesia on Sunday declared the coral-rich waters around Bali -- a popular scuba diving spot which is home to the giant Mola-Mola ocean sunfish -- a protected zone. The 20,000-hectare (49,500 acre) area around Nusa Penida, Nusa Ceningan and Nusa Lembongan islands will be protected from destructive fishing, waste dumping and coral mining, project leader Marthen Welly told AFP. |
| | | ndonesia has declared a vast sanctuary for sharks, turtles and manta rays in a region known as one of the world's richest sources of marine biodiversity, officials and conservationists said Tuesday. The sanctuary covers 46,000 square kilometres (17,760 square miles) of waters around the Raja Ampat islands in eastern Indonesia, part of the so-called Coral Triangle region of Southeast Asia. |
| | | "Entering its third year, the USCTI has seen remarkable progress working with the Coral Triangle nations, despite the challenges posed by an initiative as ambitious as the CTI and the imperative to simultaneously address needs at the regional, national, and local levels." - USAID Global Waters Newsletter, November 2010 |
| | | International marine scientists say that a huge coral death which has struck Southeast Asian and India Ocean reefs over recent months has highlighted the urgency of controlling global carbon emissions.
Many reefs are dead or dying across the Indian Ocean and into the Coral Triangle following a bleaching event that extends from the Seychelles in the west to Sulawesi and the Philippines in the east and include reefs in Sri Lanka, Burma Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and many sites in western and eastern Indonesia. |
| | | shared commitment to safeguarding the Solomon Islands’ extraordinary environment has brought more than 80 people together in Gizo, Western Province this week, for the country’s first national workshop on the Coral Triangle Initiative.
The 85 participants included people representing communities from Makira, Malaita, Isabel, Central, Choiseul and Western Province, as well as environmental conservation and development practitioners, researchers, lawyers, provincial planning, fisheries and forestry officers and technical staff from the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Disaster Management.
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| | | Malaysia is very serious in ensuring the success of the Coral Triangle Initiative. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Yahya Hussin said at the regional level Malaysia continues to work closely with neighbouring countries to ensure that the marine natural resources are conserved and protected for community well-being and future generations.
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| | | Tacloban City (September 22) -- A Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) Roundtable Event that will bring together the Mayors' Associations or their equivalents from the Coral Triangle countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leyte, is currently being planned.
LMP Executive Director Li-Ann de Leon informed that a planning workshop is scheduled to be conducted in Cebu on September 22-24 with the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, the Indonesia Association of Mayors and Regents and their respective Mayors Development Center, and two regional associations that support local governments, the UCLG-ASPAC and ICLEI-SEA, supported and facilitated by the US CTI Support Program. |
| | | Scientists from the University of the Philippines and De La Salle University said the magnitude of the current coral bleaching in the Philippines could surpass the catastrophe in 1998, also an El Niño year. The bleaching 12 years ago caused millions of dollars in losses in the tourism and fishery industries. |
| | | Local government officials led by Philippine Actress and Batangas Governor Vilma Santos-Recto have pledged their support for the protection of marine biodiversity conservation sites in the country and the work of Conservation International. |
| | | Drawing upon contributions from experts in the natural and social sciences, this book offers the first detailed insight into the status of the marine environment in the Wakatobi. The Wakatobi National Park is centrally located within this region, encompassing 13,000km2 and including a diversity of reefs, seagrass and mangrove habitats whilst also being home to around 100,000 people. The sustainable use of resources within the Wakatobi is therefore of significance with regard to both global marine conservation issues and the well-being of the resident population. |
| | | The Economist reports that towards the end of June, a unique joint expedition began in the waters near Indonesia. In an area of remarkable marine diversity known as the “Coral Triangle”, two vessels set sail: the American Okeanos Explorer and the Indonesian Baruna Jaya IV. Their destination was not over the horizon, but to explore the depths of the ocean. |
| | | The livelihoods of tens of millions of fishers in the world’s richest coral reef region, the Coral Triangle, are at risk from the combined impact of collapsing fish stocks, environmental decline and coastal development.
A new study focusing on a group of islands in the Philippines by Dr Michael Fabinyi of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University has highlighted the pressures being experienced by tens of millions of subsistence fishers in the region bounded by Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia. |
| | | WWF welcomes Indonesian moratorium on new trawl and purse seine fisheries licenses but an immediate reduction in fishing efforts is needed in order to protect the Coral Triangle, the world’s most diverse marine environment. |
| | | Wakatobi regency, Southeast Sulawesi, and Microsoft Indonesia signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Jakarta for information technology assistance in biodiversity enhancement research. |
| | | Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been honored with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Award for Leadership in Promoting Ocean and Marine Conservation and Management.
The award was presented Wednesday by UNEP executive director Achiem Steiner during the opening of UNEP's 11th Special Session of the Governing Council in Nusa Dua, Bali, which is the first ministerial-level meeting organized by the UN body since the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. |
| | | A new guide to sustainable fish stocks in the Asia Pacific aims to help diners in Singapore enjoy their meals without harming one of the world's major marine ecosystems. |
| | | FISHING operators and buyers who attended the first-ever business summit to address overexploitation and overfishing in the Coral Triangle have promised not to source their products from illegal, unregulated and unreported operations.
They are also committed to implement catch and trade documentation by using third party certification schemes to ensure that products are not sourced illegally. |
| | | The planet's most diverse marine region is under serious threat and requires urgent protection from companies that can also boost their profits through conservation efforts, officials and environmentalists said Tuesday. |
| | | MANILA is in the process of drafting a proposal involving the conservation of fisheries resources, particularly tuna, for funding under the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI).
Environment Undersecretary Manuel Gerochi said the Philippines is hoping to get an allocation from the $400 million which multilateral institutions have pledged to support new activities under the CTI. |
| | | Business and policy leaders from across Asia and the Pacific are gathering here for a two-day forum to identify opportunities for more sustainable growth in the world 's most diverse marine environment — the Coral Triangle region.
Organized by the Philippine government and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), with the assistance of USAID, the Coral Triangle Business Summit, starting today, is expected to outline pathways and networking opportunities
for key sectors in reducing their ecological footprint, organizers said. |
| | | The first Coral Triangle Initiative Business Summit, which runs from Jan. 19-20 at the Makati Shangri-La, aims to identify frameworks and best practices, as well as secure a commitment from the private sector to ensure sustainability of resource development and extraction in the area. |
| | | Lynne Zeitlin Hale, the director of global marine initiatives at The Nature Conservancy, talks to the Jakarta Post on the impacts of Climate Change to marine and coastal resources. |
| | | Ongoing Copenhagen climate talks decided to drop ocean issues from the negotiating draft text on emissions cuts. |
| | | Ministers from the Solomon Islands and Indonesia – on behalf of the Coral Triangle countries – today called on world leaders to recognize and act upon the threat climate change poses to marine environments, particularly the adverse impacts on coral reefs, fisheries and food security. |
| | | THE Second Ministerial Meeting for the Coral Triangle Initiative which took place last week at Gizo, Western Province, was described as a “huge success.”
A statement from the Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Meteorology says a number of major decisions were made and endorsed at the meeting. These include the location and structure of a regional secretariat and a joint communiqué on climate change, which will assist Coral triangle countries achieve their objective of safeguarding coral reefs, fisheries and food security for their people. |
| | | Coral reefs threatened by rising sea temperatures are set to be frozen in a “last ditch effort” to preserve them for the future. |
| | | The six member countries of the Coral Triangle group say that developed countries should reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2015. |
| | | The Coral Triangle (CT), the world's center of marine life located along the equator at the confluence of the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean, is now under extreme threat from climate change as well as escalating local and regional environmental pressures.
Without a global agreement at the UN Climate Conference at Copenhagen in December to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, efforts to sustainably manage the Coral Triangle's marine resources for the millions of people that depend on them will be in vain. |
| | | A meeting this week in Solomon Islands seeks to find ways to preserve the reefs in the Coral Triangle within the territories of six countries - Malaysia, Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Solomon Islands. Gordon Darcy Lilo, Solomon Islands Minister for Environment, Conservation and Meteorology and chair of this week's Coral Triangle Initiative ministers' meeting talks about the meeting's goal and highlights. |
| | | Senior officials from the six countries involved in the Coral Triangle Initiative will meet in Solomon Islands this week to discuss the progress of the Initiative which focuses on safeguarding coral reefs, fisheries and food security in the Coral Triangle region. |
| | | The prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future, the BBC reports. |
| | | Malaysia's Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry plans to set up a National Oceanography Institute to house marine-related data and information, its Minister Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili said.He also said Malaysia needed to implement the Coral Triangle Initiative programmes based on national priorities and in line with national policies to implement good governance and management of the resources.
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| | | Indonesia offered five strategies to anticipate climate change's effect that would harm human's life. One of these is the CTI. |
| | | The Municipal Council of Nasugbu, Batangas announced recently the approval of a landmark ordinance declaring three coves of Hamilo Coast – Pico de Loro, Santelmo, and Etayo – as marine protected areas (MPAs). |
| | | The Indonesian government has announced plans to set a quota on coral trading to ensure the sustainability of marine biodiversity. |
| | | Dozens of businessmen, journalists, students and tourists are participating in the Bali Reef Project, a coral reef farming and underwater cleanup program that aims to protect Bali's marine ecosystem from further damage. |
| | | The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is assisting the six member-countries of the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) strengthen coastal and marine ecosystems management through a $2.3-million technical assistance. |
| | | In a speech before the National Geographic Society in Washington DC, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appealed to other countries to do their share in preserving the Coral Triangle, one of the world’s most diverse marine ecosystems and the biggest source of fish products in the world. |
| | | View a CNN video report of overfishing of tuna in the Coral Triangle.
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| | | The Australia.TO Internet News site interviews Dr. Terry Hughes from the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. |
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| | | Marine Conservation School Set to Open In Wakatobi, Jakarta Post, July 17, 2011 |