The US CTI Support Program's Coral Triangle Support Partnership is ending in September 2013 and will hold a series of handover activities between June - August 2013 in all Coral Triangle countries. For more details about this activity, contact Stacey Tighe at stacey.tighe@gmail.com.

The ADB CTI Southeast Asia Project will conduct a one-day MPA Manager's Training in Quezon City Philippines.

The US CTI Support Program's Coral Triangle Support Partnership is ending in September 2013 and will hold a series of handover activities between June - August 2013 in all Coral Triangle countries. For more details about this activity, contact Stacey Tighe at stacey.tighe@gmail.com.

The US CTI Support Program will conduct an EAFM for Leaders, Executives, and Decision-Makers Training in Wewak, Papua New Guinea. For more information about this event, contact Maurice Knight at maurice.knight@wwfus.org

Jakarta, Indonesia – More than 60 events across nearly 100 locations in six countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste – will mark Coral Triangle Day on June 9, 2013, to raise public awareness of marine resource conservation issues.

Coral Triangle Day: Fostering a Sense of Community and Camaraderie in Sustaining the World’s Epicenter of Marine Biodiversity
By: Sudirman Saad, Chairman, CTI-CFF Interim Regional Secretariat

On June 9, 2013, an estimated 10,000 people from all walks of life gathered in more than 50 locations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste to celebrate Coral Triangle Day.

Dili, Timor-Leste – More than 30 representatives from the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste - gathered in Dili on May 29-31, 2013 to launch a new guidebook that will help coastal communities in the region adapt to the growing threats of climate change.

Representatives of the six member countries of the Coral Triangle Initiative—Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste—met on April 10-12, 2013, in Manila, Philippines, to develop and refine a regional process for monitoring and evaluating the initiative’s progress towards achieving the goals under its Regional Plan of Action. The plan of action contains climate change and marine resource sustainability activities and is being implemented from 2009 to 2020.