GRANTEE: Reef Check Malaysia
COUNTRY: Malaysia
Coral reefs around Tioman and Redang Islands are severely threatened by unregulated tourism, inadequate waste management, and the long-term risks of climate change. The key problem is the limited local capacity for sustained, effective resource management.
This project addresses the gap by establishing a new generation of Community Marine Conservation Leaders, intensively training local youth in practical skills including scuba certification, reef health monitoring, coral rehabilitation, and ghost net removal.
The sustainability mechanism involves actively promoting corporate and individual adoption of coral reefs, thereby securing a continuous, non-grant source of financing to fund the community conservation interventions year-round. This builds local ownership and resilience against marine ecosystem degradation.
