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| The Community Coral Team |
A bustle of activity and a flurry of hands helped to build
12 bottle reefs and 2 big turtle reefs during the Community Coral Planting day
on Kalapuan Island.
Upon arrival to Kalapuan, TRACC staff and volunteers were
greeted from the shores by the usual picturesque scene of blue water, green
trees, and smiling faces and happy hands. As an added bonus Chief Ibno organized
a pre Community Coral Day beach clean, greeting TRACC with clean beaches and a
successfully collected and pile of
plastic bottles, wrappers and polystyrene. |
| Nat and Christine Talking Shark Fin Soup |
Between reef making and lunch eating, Liam, Khairul, Nat and
Christine gave a talk about the importance of coral reefs and the role of
sharks in coral reef ecology. Highlighting the importance of conserving the
reef and saying no to shark fin soup.
Waving a temporary goodbye to Kalapuan as the boat departed
at the end of a productive day the event felt like a great success. But the
works not over yet, TRACC will organize another Community Coral Planting Day in
the near future to drop the completed and dried reefs.
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| Bottle Reef Making with Wellman and Liam |
A big thanks to Mr. Yusof owner of the Kalapuan Island
Resort for the use of the resort and providing a location to drop the reefs, the volunteers from TRACC and Kalapuan, the TRACC staff for the months
of planning and to the GEF Small Grants Program (SGP) for providing the
financial support to make the Community Coral Planting day such a success!
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If you want to help with any marine conservation activity please check out our website tracc.org or e-mail iinfo@tracc-borneo.org
Reef conservation would not be possible without the generous financial support from GEF/SPG for Malaysia who are helping our community activities, and coralreefcare.com who generously provide materials to build more reefs.
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