“Healthy Ocean,
Healthy Planet. ”
Ocean Hope was designed with the vision to protect and conserve marine biodiversity by enhancing national ocean literacy.
ONGOING EVENT !
Workshop Description :
The DNA & eDNA Training Workshop: Advancing Tropical Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Malaysia introduces participants to modern molecular tools for marine ecosystem assessment. The workshop provides practical training in DNA and environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling, laboratory workflows, and data interpretation for biodiversity monitoring and conservation applications.
Led by Bongkeun Song from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, this hands-on program equips researchers, students, and practitioners with skills to apply genetic techniques in tropical marine monitoring and ecosystem management.
Spotlight
Our first recycled plastic card features one of the most endangered marine life in Malaysia, the Sea Turtles.
Globally, sea turtles are in the brink of extinction where out of seven existing species in the world, three of them are classified by IUCN Redlist as Critically Endangered while others as Endangered. Human activities like illegal poaching and over-exploiting of the turtle eggs is one of the major factors that brought to the decreasing numbers of these ancient mariners. They also face dangers from accidental capture – known as bycatch, entangled themselves in ghost nests and consumed plastics which they mistook as jellyfishes. Recent increase of temperature in the atmosphere – or climate change – impacts the turtle nesting sites as it alters the sand temperatures which in turn affects the gender of the hatchlings that will cause imbalance population stock in our ocean.
More at RHB Ocean Harmony.