Bird's Head Seascape Coral Triangle Archives - Page 13 of 39

Patrol Updates from Raja Ampat’s Marine Park Authority January, 2021 Updated by: Allan Fredrik Ramandey* Dear readers, through this article we will provide you with an update related to patrol...

Rapid Coral Reef Assessment using 3-D modeling and acoustics by Peck, Tapilatu, Kurniati, Rosado

19 Feb 2021

Rapid coral reef assessment using 3D modeling and acoustics: acoustic indices correlate to fish abundance, diversity and environmental indicators in West Papua, Indonesia by Mica Peck*, Ricardo...

Bird's Head Seascape, Conservation, Coral Triangle, education, environment, Indonesia, initiatives, Marine Protected Area, MPA, protected areas, raja ampat, sustainability, town meetings, West Papua

Socialization Event held in Asia & Ayau Islands MPA. Reported by Bertha Matatar

10 Feb 2021

CUSTOMARY REGULATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF WAYAG SOCIALIZED IN ASIA AND AYAU ISLANDS MPA Reported by: Bertha Matatar* A collaboration between Raja Ampat’s Maya Tribe Customary Council,...

Papua Barat Sahkan Peraturan Daerah Khusus Tentang Provinsi Pembangunan Berkelanjutan. Oleh Susan Vulpas

25 Jan 2021

Sebuah Peraturan Daerah Khusus (Perdasus) tentang Pembangunan Berkelanjutan di Provinsi Papua Barat disahkan pada awal tahun 2019. Peraturan No. 10 Tahun 2019 ini secara garis besar merangkum...

Perdasus: A Special Regulation on Sustainable Development in West Papua by Susan Vulpas

25 Jan 2021

West Papua Governor signs the Sustainable Development Province Regulation Note: Late last year this regulation passed legal review and has finally been released to the public. We earlier posted...

Bird's Head Seascape, Conservation, Coral Triangle, education, endangered species, environment, illegal fishing, Indonesia, initiatives, Marine Protected Area, Misool, MPA, park rangers, protected areas, raja ampat, sustainability, tourism, West Papua

Patrol Updates from Raja Ampat’s Marine Park Authority December, 2020 by: Allan Fredrik Ramandey*

13 Jan 2021

Dear readers, here we are in early 2021 and we will provide updates from the last month of 2020 regarding the community-based patrol conducted by the Marine Park Rangers – Jaga Laut – in all...

MPA’s added to the BHS MPA network

12 Jan 2021

MPAs (Marine Protected Areas) are the heart and soul of the Bird’s Head Seascape. There are now 26, including 3 new ones, TCBFM (Traditional Community Based Fisheries Management) Bintuni,...

Natural History of Manta Rays in the Bird’s Head Seascape: A new study by Edy Setyawan, et al.

07 Jan 2021

Natural history of manta rays in the Bird’s Head Seascape, Indonesia, with an analysis of the demography and spatial ecology of Mobula alfredi (Elasmobranchii: Mobulidae) by Edy Setyawan, Mark...

Painting the Bird’s Head Endemics-Art by Nate Wilson

06 Jan 2021

Administrator’s note: We are so proud and honored to introduce you to Nate Wilson, a painter of underwater art. Nate contacted us last year with the proposition of painting every endemic...

Bird's Head Seascape, Coral Triangle, diversity, diving, endangered species, environment, Indonesia, Manta Ray, Marine Protected Area, MPA, photography, protected areas, raja ampat, scuba, shark, turtle, underwater photography, West Papua

Since 2006 Adriana Basques & Clark Miller have been visiting the BHS…despite concerns, they continue to return! Words by Clark, spectacular images…by both.

16 Dec 2020

My first trip to BHS, more specifically, Raja Ampat was in 2006, not long after Gerald Allan had conducted his famous RAP (rapid assessment program) of the islands of West Papua. The excitement...