Going back home! We were welcomed warmly by MCC for our return. This trip is probably the last for the rest of the year. We’ve learned a lot!
Unfortunately, we didn’t get to do any underwater survey due to the overwhelming destructive fishing. With bad visibility, we can’t do any survey. However, we took this opportunity to get our heads on dolphins survey, cluster, and work on some presentations.
According to what we’ve seen this trip, to everybody who thinks that we shouldn’t care about the ocean, put your head down there and see the destruction that human made. Because compare to deforestation, the destruction is much more visible while we can’t really see the destruction underwater. This trip has forced us to step out of our comfort zone, we had to dive with bad visibility, reflect, and think that’s why we’re here.
Seagrass washed up on the beach, plastics pollution, trawling, dead fish, bleached coral, and bad visibility. We’ve seen them all and we’re going to show this threat when we go to a Marine Conservation Congress in Kuching, Malaysia. We are privileged to join this conference as the youngest Marine biologists and get to present our project. We spent most of our time working on how we can proudly represent LMRT, MCC, and Liger. We’ll make a video, a scientific poster, and a presentation. With the best effort, we hope to raise awareness about Kep archipelago, Cambodia. We won’t stop here and we’ll live up to the hope.
Just because we can’t do the survey this trip, this doesn’t stop us from being productive. There is a lot more work we can do out there.
