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Indonesia Inaugurates Future Home of the CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat
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(L-R) Indonesia Minister for People's Welfare Agung Laksono, North Sulawesi Governor Sinyo Sarundajang and Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Sharif Sutardjo at the ground breaking ceremony
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The ground breaking ceremony of Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) Regional Secretariat office was held on Saturday, January 28, 2012 in Manado, North Sulawesi. As part of the Government of Indonesia's commitment to the CTI-CFF, it has allocated around US$ 5.5 million to support the Regional Secretariat office construction. It will be built on roughly 21,000 square meter of land provided by the Provincial Government of North Sulawesi. The compound will consist of a five-story building for various offices and a six-story building which will have laboratories, library, aquarium, and other facilities for the public. MORE
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CTI-CFF Scores Breakthrough in Combining Multifaceted Management Principles in Marine Protected Area Design
 A new set of guidelines has for the first time combined and integrated the principles of fisheries, biodiversity and climate change in establishing effective marine protected area (MPA) networks in the Coral Triangle.
In the past, many MPA networks were unsuccessful because they focused solely on one principle and objective. The new guidelines aim to address this concern by enabling MPA networks to simultaneously achieve fisheries sustainability, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change. MORE |
CTI-CFF Course on Climate Change Adaptation for Coastal Communities Spurs Region-wide Action
To catalyze regional sharing of knowledge, methods and strategies related to coastal adaptation, the CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat, in collaboration
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A coastal community in the Philippines at risk from climate change Credit: UP MSI
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with the CTI National Coordinating Committees in Malaysia and the Philippines and the US CTI Support Program, has organized the second CTI Course on Climate Change Adaptation for Coastal Communities and Training of Trainers. The course, attended by 30 participants from Malaysia and the Philippines, is held in Tagaytay from January 31-February 9, 2012. The course is the second of a series - the first of which was held in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea in October 2011 - that aims to aid local communities across the Coral Triangle countries to improve their capacity to adapt to the risk of rising temperatures using the CTI Regional and Local Early Action Plans for Climate Change Adaptation as their tools.MORE
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| CTI-CFF High Level Financial Roundtable Set
The CTI-CFF High Level Financial Roundtable is set for May 3, 2012 and will be held as a special event during the 45th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila, Philippines. The event will consist of formal meeting and market place sessions. The roundtable will be conducted to provide a venue for the Coral Triangle Initiative countries and the Regional Secretariat to generate additional funding for the implementation of the CTI-CFF National Plans of Action and Regional Plan of Action, and for the donors to communicate their funding priorities. MORE
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CTI-CFF Secretariat Works with US Partner to Push Forward on Goals for 2012 and Beyond
The CTI-CFF Secretariat met with members of the US CTI Support Program Integrator on January 25, 2012 in Jakarta to collaborate on a range of priority CTI issues. These included efforts to support the process to establish the permanent Secretariat, strategy to conduct CTI-CFF Implementation Roadmap activities more effectively, and raise the international profile of CTI through expanded communications and outreach strategies. During the meeting, which was a follow-up of a meeting held in Bangkok in December 2011, Dr. Suseno Sukoyono, Executive Chair of the CTI Secretariat, emphasized the importance of outreach efforts in communicating the CTI's key achievements and most urgent priorities to the broadest audience possible. MORE |
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Endangered Sea Turtle Population in the Coral Triangle on the Rise
A record number of 1.44 million endangered green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) eggs were laid last year in Baguan Island, southern Philippines - achieving an all-time high since 1984. Factoring life expectancy rates, the eggs are expected to grow into 13,000 adult
sea turtles and boost a dwindling population classified as endangered under the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species. The expected increase in sea turtle population supports the goals of the CTI-CFF to improve the status of threatened species and is a direct result of conservation, enforcement and community engagement in the area implemented through USAID's Coral Triangle Support Partnership and Conservation International. MORE
To see more photos of the turtles, follow this link. Photo Caption: A green sea turtle lays an egg in Baguan Island, Philippines
Credit: Conservation International/AG Sano.
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Upcoming EventsManila, Philippines
March 14-16, 2012
Denpasar, Indonesia
March 26-30, 2012
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
May 22-25, 2012 Cairns, Australia
July 9-13, 2012
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For more information on the CTI-CFF, contact: Dr. Darmawan Coordinator, CTI-CFF Interim Regional Secretariat
Email: darmawan@indo.net.idPh: +62-21-351 9070 ext 1723, 62-21-3521780
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