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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 […]

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 […]

In Search of Leatherbacks in the Kei Islands, Moluccas

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

20 November 2009 Second day we were asked to wake up at 5:30am! By after breakfast and 6:15am we were off. The seas were glass flat and calm as. The early morning sun made really brilliant reflections on the water but after 2 hours of searching, we still didn’t see any leatherback turtles. Yogi spotted […]

Kei Island Turtles

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

19 – 26 November 2009 After zooming around the many islands in Wakatobi, it was a relief to finally stay put in one community and concentrate in one thing and one thing only – leatherback marine turtles. Kei is the only location in Indonesia we can hope to photograph leatherbacks underwater. It is also the […]