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Tengah Island Conservation (TIC) is a biodiversity management initiative located on the island’s Long Beach. Founded and partially funded by Batu Batu, TIC is dedicated to the research, rehabilitation and regeneration of our natural environment.
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malaysian ecosystems, full of life and rich in biodiveristy, where threatened species and local communities thrive side by side.

 
 
 
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Sea Turtle MONITORING

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Beach & Underwater CleanUp

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Marine projects

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Terrestrial Projects

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Community OUTREACH

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Impact

Our progress and what we have achieved over the years from the founding of Turtle Watch Camp until today with Tengah Island Conservation.

 

16,000

critically endangered and endangered sea turtle hatchlings Released

85

Square kilometres daily Patrolling to prevent poaching

18,000

kilograms of marine debris from local beaches and reefs

1,000,000

Square metres of coral reef cleaned, mapped and surveyed

 
 
 
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Latest News and Updates from Tengah Island Conservation Projects.

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PEDAS Rolls Out in Mersing Schools
Community
PEDAS Rolls Out in Mersing Schools
Community

PEDAS stands for Pasukan Pendidik Ekologi Dan Alam Sekitar, and is a multi-stakeholder environmental education programme for Mersing’s schools . It is a partnership between Tengah Island Conservation, Reef Check Malaysia, Trash Hero Mersing, Mersing District Council, Mersing District Education Office, Mersing District Office and the Johor Marine Park Department.

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Community
Tackling Marine Plastic on World Oceans Day
Community, Partnership, Clean Up
Tackling Marine Plastic on World Oceans Day
Community, Partnership, Clean Up

On Saturday 15 June, Tengah Island Conservation (TIC) organised a community clean-up of Rapang Beach on Pulau Besar in collaboration with Majlis Daerah Mersing and Trash Hero Mersing to commemorate World Oceans Day. The beach clean-up was held to raise awareness of the issues of marine debris and to protect fragile marine ecosystem from pollution.

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Community, Partnership, Clean Up
DiveMaster Intern Blog - Imke Meyer
Internship
DiveMaster Intern Blog - Imke Meyer
Internship

One of our Dive Master Interns, Imke Meyer, shared his experience of his time with Tengah Island Conservation and our Batu Batu Dive team in this special blog post.

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Internship
International Conference On Plastics In The Marine Environment 2018, Singapore
International Conference On Plastics In The Marine Environment 2018, Singapore

Earlier this month, Siva our Outreach Coordinator travelled to Singapore to represent Tengah Island Conservation and present our research and activties at the International Conference for Plastic in the Marine Environment 2018.

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Global Ghost Gear Initiative GGGI - Annual General Meeting 2018 - Bali
Clean Up, Community, conferneces, Partnership, science, Ghost Gear
Global Ghost Gear Initiative GGGI - Annual General Meeting 2018 - Bali
Clean Up, Community, conferneces, Partnership, science, Ghost Gear

Tanya attended the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) 5th Annual General Meeting (AGM), in Bali, Indonesia to get to know the members working to clean up the ocean and to talk all things ghost gear!

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Clean Up, Community, conferneces, Partnership, science, Ghost Gear
Meshminds Foundation - Creative Technology Supporting Conservation
Meshminds Foundation - Creative Technology Supporting Conservation

This week the Tengah Island Conservation team has partnered with the Meshminds Foundation and welcomed botanical artist Lucinda Law and founding director of Within.sg to the island. Lucinda’s work is inspired by the beauty of nature and she is collaborating with MeshMinds promoting awareness on sustainability issues through art.

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Volunteer Blog - Matthew Walker
Volunteering
Volunteer Blog - Matthew Walker
Volunteering

One of our Volunteers at Tengah Island Conservation, Matthew Walker, shared his 10 weeks volunteering experience working with us in this blog post.

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Volunteering
Our Outreach Program In The News!
Our Outreach Program In The News!

As our Outreach Programme gets underway in Mersing Schools, we’re excited to feature in The Iskandarian! We are aiming to reach around 8 schools in Mersing this year with a variety of educational talks and activities focussed around the marine environment. Check out the article below for more information on our Outreach Coordinator Siva’s programme at SMK Mersing!

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International Marine Conservation Congress 2018, IMCC5
Partnership, conferneces, turtles, science
International Marine Conservation Congress 2018, IMCC5
Partnership, conferneces, turtles, science

Tanya and Mariana attended the 5th annual International Marine Conservation Congress in Kuching, Sarawak where they were presenting our work on monitoring and conserving sea turtle in the Johor Marine Park.

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Partnership, conferneces, turtles, science
Hosting Training of Trainer (TOT) with Johor Marine Park on Pulau Tengah
Hosting Training of Trainer (TOT) with Johor Marine Park on Pulau Tengah

In collaboration with Batu Batu, we were excited to host a two-day training session run by Marine Parks Johor for members of the local community, including other resorts, island communities and tourist boat operators. The event was in celebration of the International Year of the Reef and aimed to provide training for local tourism operators on eco-friendly practices within the Marine Park.

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Why we do what we do…

A quote from Mark Carwardine below summarises our inspiration to do what we are doing at TIC.

“...while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we’re driving.


There is one last reason for caring, and I believe that no other is necessary. It is certainly the reason why so many people have devoted their lives to protecting the likes of rhinos, parakeets, kakapos, and dolphins. And it is simple this: the world would be a poorer, darker, lonelier place without them.”

— MARK CARWARDINE, LAST CHANCE TO SEE

 
 
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Our Partners

We believe that we are stronger working together and are infinitely thankful to our friends and partners for their support.

 
 
 

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. . Ecology and Environment Team, or better known as PEDAS, is a collaboration team of various NGOs (Reef Check Malaysia @reefcheckmalaysia , Tengah Island Conservation, Trash Hero Mersing @trashheromersing ) and government agencies based in Mersing (Majlis Daerah Mersing @mymersing ,Pejabat Pendidikan Daerah Mersing, Taman Laut Negeri Johor @tamanlautjohorofficial , Pejabat Daerah Mersing) that aim to educate and raise awareness regarding the marine environment at schools around Mersing. Yesterday, the PEDAS team had just introduced Module 2-Marine Debris at SMK Sri Mersing. As many as 35 student from Form 4 were taught about marine debris, biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials, the effects of non-biodegradable materials towards the environment and ways to reduce the usage of these materials. At the end of the session, we hope that these students can be more aware of the harmfulness of single use plastic towards the marine environment and learn to refuse the usage of plastic altogether. Thank you to all, especially to the teachers, staff and student of SMK Sri Mersing for making this program a successful one! #saynotosingleuseplastic #seaturtles #PEDAS2019 #mersingjohor #johordarultakzim
. . Ecology and Environment Team, or better known as PEDAS, is a collaboration team of various NGOs (Reef Check Malaysia @reefcheckmalaysia , Tengah Island Conservation, Trash Hero Mersing @trashheromersing ) and government agencies based in Mersing (Majlis Daerah Mersing @mymersing ,Pejabat Pendidikan Daerah Mersing, Taman Laut Negeri Johor @tamanlautjohorofficial , Pejabat Daerah Mersing) that aim to educate and raise awareness regarding the marine environment at schools around Mersing. Yesterday, the PEDAS team had just introduced Module 2-Marine Debris at SMK Sri Mersing. As many as 35 student from Form 4 were taught about marine debris, biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials, the effects of non-biodegradable materials towards the environment and ways to reduce the usage of these materials. At the end of the session, we hope that these students can be more aware of the harmfulness of single use plastic towards the marine environment and learn to refuse the usage of plastic altogether. Thank you to all, especially to the teachers, staff and student of SMK Sri Mersing for making this program a successful one! #saynotosingleuseplastic #seaturtles #PEDAS2019 #mersingjohor #johordarultakzim
Busy days here at Tengah Island Conservation as we conduct the last coral reef surveys at Pulau Harimau 🐠 #marineconservation #coralreefs #wildlifeconservation #conservation #reefsurveys #marinebiology #reefmonitoring #science #diving #saveouroceans
Calling all volunteers for International Coastal Cleanup Day this September 21st! Join TIC, @trashheromersing, @reefcheckmalaysia and @mymersing at Pulau Mawar! If you'd like to sponsor or support the cleanup in any way please get in touch. We'll post more details soon! 🐢 🐠 💪 #iccd2019 #beachclean #TIC #tengahislandconservation #ocean #conservation #oceanconservancy #protectwhatyoulove #malaysia #johor #mersing
A sad week for the team as we found our 12th dead turtle of the season. We were notified of this stranded green turtle and asked by Johor Marine Park if we could help out by carrying out the necropsy. A big thank you to @aaronniguez @debiguau and @alangsrawa for their help in retrieving the turtle. There were no obvious signs of injury but we did find plastic in the stomach. It is unclear if this was the cause of death or not. The turtle was tagged and we've passed the information over to Marine Park and the Department of Fisheries. Sadly, dead turtles are becoming all too common a site for us. We've released over 2000 hatchlings so far this season but only 2 of those are expected to make it to adulthood. With boat strikes, plastic ingestion, entanglement and egg poaching...we are killing them faster than their populations can recover. #seaturtle #turtle #turtleconservation #ocean #oceanconservation #TIC #tengahislandconservation #endangeredspecies #penyu #conservation #islandconservation #marinepark #protectourspecies #protectiomforseaturtles #protectpenyu
TIC has been a member of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative since 2018 and according to them "Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), also known as “ghost gear”, is at least four times more likely to impact marine life through entanglement than all other forms of marine debris combined." Our team has removed over 6000kg of ghost gear from the reefs and beaches of several islands around us...and we still aren't finished... It can take hours to cut and remove just one net or rope! Here are some pics of our team working on some ghost gear removal on a regular beach clean! 📸 @jennarrose @elenn10 @hollyjohannessen @frigerio_gabriele @noah_irfan #tengahislandconservation #TIC #ghostgear #oceanpositive #ghostgearinitiative #oceanconservation #plasticfree #globalghostgearinitiative #trashfreeseas #conservation #marinedebris #marineplastic #oceanconservancy #island #marinepark #beachclean #beachcleanup #saveouroceans #conservationoptimism #protectwhatyoulove @mymersing
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