Protect What You Love

Marine conservation across the reefs, islands and sea people of the Riau Archipelago, Indonesia — diving, surveying and defending the water at Nikoi, now widening to Cempedak and the wider region.

Reefs & the Turtle Program

Nikoi

Dive sites, coral, the fishing community, the turtle nesting program and a running field journal — where this work began.

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Riau Archipelago

Cempedak

The conservation work extends to Cempedak next — this section is being built as new dives, photographs and field notes come in.

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Anambas Archipelago

Bawah

A marine survey from years before the resort existed — thirteen dive logs, in photographs, from when the islands were still under construction.

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Right Outside His Door

Teluk Bakau

A seagrass ecosystem right outside his door that eight years of living there — and thirty of diving — had still never brought him close to, until lockdown changed that.

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The Sea People

Fishing Community

The villages who fish these same reefs for a living, and the slow work of finding a way the reef and the fishing can both survive.

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A Running Log

Field Journal

What turns up on the reef, island by island and dive by dive — an ongoing record going back to 2011.

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The Philosophy

Why We Protect

Why a former Marine Conservation Officer keeps doing this work, and the aphorism the whole project is named for.

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From the Reef

A few frames from the water around Nikoi and Cempedak.

School of trevally over sand
Trevally school, Riau Archipelago
Moray eel
Moray eel
Goby close-up
Goby, close up
Moray eel
Moray eel

Get Involved

Interested in the turtle program, a survey visit, or contributing photographs and field notes of your own?

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