Good ‘buoys’ to save corals

Doing their part: A tourism boat crew using the mooring buoys a day after they were installed. — Picture courtesy of Reef Check Malaysia

KOTA KINABALU: Volunteers and various stakeholders concerned about the wellbeing of coral reefs put their hands together to deploy mooring buoys in Sabah’s east coast Semporna district to save the marine life there from human destruction.

Reef Check Malaysia, in collaboration with the Semporna district office, Pulau Sipadan Resort and Tours (PSR) as well as volunteers from the Pemimpin Iklim Belia Mabul and Larapan Marine Conservation Group, successfully installed four buoys at the Timba-Timba Island from Jan 11-12.