The SEA Log
Stories from the Field
A first Scuba Dive, an Elder Brother as a Guide.
𝐀 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐁𝐀 𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐄. 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞. Piet—our Yaf Keru team leader—guided his younger brother through his first ever scuba dive (video at end). Just a few days ago, his brother...
Yaf Keru: When Fishing is a Sign of Hope
Last night, we spotted a spearfisher on the reef at Yaf Keru (today we received a fish from them). Early this morning, these two young boys in a hand-carved canoe fished with nothing but a line wrapped around a plastic bottle. In the wind-shadow of Mansuar Island,...
Science. Education. ACTION. – Why Awareness Is No Longer Enough
For more than a decade, The SEA People have been dedicated to protecting and restoring Raja Ampat’s reefs. Our name stood for Science. Education. Awareness. And that that last word - awareness - was crucial. But over time throughout the world, this has become a...
Scaling Up Reef Restoration—Be Part of the Impact
3 days ago we posted the above image and info on our instagram account. We’ve just had to adjust it… because just when we thought our team couldn’t get any better… they did. Yesterday, with just THREE people (while number 4 stepped out to write a grant proposal), the...
The World’s Fourth Coral Bleaching Event; How It’s Affecting Raja Ampat right now
Like many coral reefs regions around the world right now, Raja Ampat is experiencing the impacts of a record-breaking marine heatwave, resulting in a coral bleaching. This aligns with broader climate patterns (El Nino), human induced climate change (which has brought...
To France and Back Again: Celebrating Milestones in Community Based Conservation & Leadership
**A quick opening note… we know that not everyone likes to read long posts, but we invite you to both watch the video and read to the very end, because the final closing paragraph (which is not about a trip to France at all!) is equally as important and significant as...
Coral Spawning in Raja Ampat; a grand celebration and one of nature’s best kept secrets
Last night during a dive on Yaf Keru, we experienced a moment of absolute wonder — a single coral (sp Pachyseris speciosa) in the act of spawning. Rarely sighted, we watched in awe as a cloud of male gametes drifted upward from a coral that, without the restoration...
Placing Communities at the Heart of Conservation: How Local Knowledge & Leadership Drive Lasting Conservation
In the world of conservation, one truth is becoming increasingly clear: lasting environmental change is only possible when the people most affected by these efforts are placed at the centre. This belief is not just a guiding principle for The SEA People—it’s the...
Day Fourteen: The SEA People Diaries | By Greg Johannes
1. The remote tropics will break you... To survive and thrive as an NGO in the field in West Papua takes resilience, patience, good humour and sheer will. 2. Tourism walks a fine line here. Each time I travel to West Papua I have to go further to escape what I’ve...
Day Thirteen: The SEA People Diaries | By Greg Johannes
A last snorkel, saying goodbye.. some realisation and reflection. "We zoom through the Dampier Strait and I realise how much it’s changed in the last eight years. Two weeks ago I was in a wild and raw part of West Papua. Here now there are resorts and ‘home...
Day Twelve: The SEA People Diaries | By Greg Johannes
My twelfth day in West Papua with The SEA People, enjoying more ‘doing’ and less talking about the ocean. Filming, Roy and Piet go fishing... and dugongs (six of them)My twelfth day in West Papua with The SEA People, enjoying more ‘doing’ and less talking about the...
Day Eleven: The SEA People Diaries | By Greg Johannes
Coral is the canary that stopped singing in the climate change coal mine a long time ago. Bleaching here would just be another reminder that those who contribute least to the greenhouse effect will still be the ones who often suffer most.I have a fitful sleep. There...
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If left unchecked, 90% of coral reefs will be threatened by 2030, with almost all reefs facing, high, very high, or critical threat levels by 2050.
If we don’t act now, future generations will not have the privilege of seeing a live coral reef, let alone receive the benefits that coral reefs provide, including food, coastal protection, livelihoods and medicine.
In Raja Ampat, Indonesia, the most biodiverse coral reefs on Earth are under threat; rapid and unsustainable development combined with climate change threaten the future of these reefs, along with the food security, heritage and livelihoods of many.
Your contribution today has a direct impact in enabling our team to work with local people to Restore, Protect and Conserve reefs in the world’s last remaining coral stronghold.
We cannot do it alone, but with your contribution we can do it together.
100% of your donation goes to
the field.
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If left unchecked, 90% of coral reefs will be threatened by 2030, with almost all reefs facing, high, very high, or critical threat levels by 2050.
If we don’t act now, future generations will not have the privilege of seeing a live coral reef, let alone receive the benefits that coral reefs provide, including food, coastal protection, livelihoods and medicine.
In Raja Ampat, Indonesia, the most biodiverse coral reefs on Earth are under threat; rapid and unsustainable development combined with climate change threaten the future of these reefs, along with the food security, heritage and livelihoods of many.
Your contribution today has a direct impact in enabling our team to work with local people to Restore, Protect and Conserve reefs in the world’s last remaining coral stronghold.
We cannot do it alone, but with your contribution we can do it together.
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