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.
Dive sites, coral, the fishing community, the turtle nesting program and a running field journal — where this work began.
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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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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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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 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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What turns up on the reef, island by island and dive by dive — an ongoing record going back to 2011.
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Why a former Marine Conservation Officer keeps doing this work, and the aphorism the whole project is named for.
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