What are corals? You see them in tropical ocean waters, they come in may shapes and forms, they are colorful and home to about 25 percent of all marine creatures.
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Microplastics: Invisible Threat to Ocean and Humans
By definition microplastics are plastic fragments that are less than 5mm in size and hard to detect with the naked eye.
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Bawah Anambas Foundation In Action: A Trip To Telaga
A small group of Bawah Reserve guests, including myself, were offered the opportunity to go and see the work of the Bawah Anambas Foundation (BAF) on nearby Telaga.
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Interesting Facts About Sea Urchins You Should Know
Sea urchins are classified as Phylum echinodermata and they are close relatives of starfish and sea cucumber.
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2020 Reef Health Monitoring Report
Reef Health Monitoring (RHM) activity is part of our marine conservation program and has been regularly held once a year since 2019 in Bawah Island and surrounding areas.
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Recreational Vs. Scientific Diving: What You Need To Know
Diving can be divided into two types based on its purposes: recreational or scientific diving.
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Getting to Know Nudibranchs, the “Butterflies of the Sea”
Nudibranchs are shell-less marine gastropod mollusks, part of the sea slug family, and estimated to have more than 2,000 different species found in the world's oceans.
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Saving Sea Turtles: BAF’s Efforts to Protect Sea Turtles in Anambas
There are a total of seven turtle species in the world and six of them can be found in Indonesia. Out of the six species, two reside in Bawah Island: green and hawksbill sea turtles.
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How Bawah Anambas Foundation Help Conserve Marine Ecosystem in Bawah Island
We made it our top mission to restore the coral reefs and create a healthy ecosystem in the surrounding waters and we are doing so by these following activities:
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Clams: The Ocean Cleaner, Current Threats and Conservation Efforts
Clams are one of the mollusks in the bivalve class that are often found in coral reef ecosystems. They have two genera (Tridacna and Hippopus),1 share a symbiotic life with Zooxanthellae photosynthetic algae2 and live in the Indo-Pacific region. So far there are 12 types of clams that have been identified, eight of them are...