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Misool Eco Resort

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Biodiversity, Coral reefs, Coral Triangle, Ecotourism, Indonesia, Marine conservation, Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Raja Ampat, Scuba Diving on February 6, 2010

16- 30 January 2010 S2 14.666 E130 33.401 – MER Loads of divers dream of owning a resort in an island paradise in the tropics surrounded by pristine coral reefs and lots of fish. When out at sea, palm trees and sunshine seem to make our brains go funny and think within the lines of […]

Misool Rangers At Work

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Biodiversity, Coral reefs, Coral Triangle, Ecotourism, Indonesia, Marine conservation, Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Raja Ampat on February 6, 2010

25 January 2010 S2 03.462 E130 24.747 – Yellu Island What originally started as a 200 square kilometer no-take zone has now been increased to 425 sq. km. Misool Eco Resort MER take their conservation work very seriously. They have set up a UK charity called the Misool Conservation Centre to raise funds for the […]

WWF CT Business Summit Photo Exhibition in Manila

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Bali, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coral reefs, Coral Triangle, Donsol, Ecotourism, El Nido Marine Protected Area & Resort, Fisheries, Indonesia, Jamursbamedi, Kei Island - Moluccas, Komodo, Kudat, Live Reef Fish Trade, Malampaya Sound, Malaysia, Marine conservation, Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Moluccas, North Sulawesi, Philippines, Pollution, Raja Ampat, Roxas / Taytay Pearl Farm, Scuba Diving, Semporna, Sipadan, Mabul, Tubbataha Reefs and Bird Island, Tuna, Turtle Islands, Sandakan, Turtles, Wakatobi South Sulawesi on February 5, 2010

19 – 20 January 2010 Sometime early November last year, we got an email from Dr. Lida Pet-Soede, WWF Coral Triangle Programme Leader to discuss an idea of having a photo exhibition of our expedition in Manila during the first WWF Coral Triangle Business Summit in January 2010. We knew this was going to be […]

Life Forms

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Biodiversity, Coral reefs, Coral Triangle, Ecotourism, Indonesia, Marine conservation, Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Raja Ampat, Scuba Diving on February 5, 2010

22 January 2010 S2 12.917 E130 33.574 – Fiabacet S2 14.666 E130 33.401 – Misool Eco Resort When Yogi starts singing, I have all reason to stop and listen to his song as he seldom does this. Whereas I break into a song at a drop of a hat, even if I don’t know the […]

Misool Eco Resort, South Raja Ampat

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Coral reefs, Coral Triangle, Ecotourism, Indonesia, Marine conservation, Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Raja Ampat, Scuba Diving on January 18, 2010

11 – 16 January 2010 It feels like such a great reward to be here in Misool Eco Resort, after our tuna adventure during the Christmas holidays. We have been traveling intensely for this expedition for about 10 months now and have covered quite some WWF work in the field as well as fishing and […]

North Raja Ampat with Mantas!

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Coral reefs, Coral Triangle, Ecotourism, Indonesia, Marine conservation, Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Raja Ampat, Scuba Diving on December 31, 2009

15 December – Tuesday S0 35.679 E130 18.159 – Jef Fam Woke up at 5am to look if our Panda flag was still flying on the mast of the Pindito. Yup, still there. It did a long night trip through from the south to the north. Hope there are no holes by now . . […]

Diving the Famed Misool, Raja Ampat!

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Coral reefs, Coral Triangle, Ecotourism, Marine conservation, Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Scuba Diving on December 31, 2009

12 December S2 13.223 E130 36.471 Boo The Pindito steamed all of last night till 10am this morning to Misool. The first dive site at 11am was in Boo. The landscape of limestone islands and outcrops is similar to Coron and El Nido, Palawan in the Philippines. Beautiful! This is finally my introduction to Raja […]

Coral Triangle Expedition Cover Stories

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Coral reefs, Coral Triangle, Ecotourism, Fisheries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Marine conservation, Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Phillipines, Scuba Diving, Turtles on December 5, 2009

Happy makers like these go a long way in keeping us company during our travels from site to site, boat to boat, hotel room to hotel room all throughout the Coral Triangle. Please read all about The Jakarta Post Weekender Magazine cover story in Alya B. Honasan’s article Odyssey of Life. And another cover story […]

WWF in Kei and Lebaran Hajj

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Coral Triangle, Fisheries, Indonesia, Kei Island - Moluccas, Live Reef Fish Trade, Marine conservation on December 5, 2009

24 – 28 November 2009 The leatherback conservation efforts in Kei is implemented by WWF-Indonesia through a local, community-based NGO (SIRaN) since 2003. In July this year, a one-man all around staff from WWF, Marthen Leuna aka Ateng, started his full time work here. There is much conservation work to do in Kei. We got […]

The Fate of Leatherback Turtles in the Kei Islands, Moluccas

Posted by Stella Chiu-Freund in Coral Triangle, Indonesia, Kei Island - Moluccas, Marine conservation, Turtles on December 2, 2009

21 November 2009 – Saturday Today we were extremely happy in the morning and extremely sad by the afternoon. We had a slow start leaving the house at 7am. For 2 long hours, we saw nothing. Eki was in fact close to cursing mode when we saw our first leatherback turtle at 9am. For the […]

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