Events

Event Title: Pulau Tioman Marine Park RIVER Ranger
06-Apr-2013 to 07-Apr-2013 Past Event
Venue: Pesona Island Resort

River Ranger Pulau Tioman Training of Trainers Programme was conducted with students from S.K Tekek and S.M.K. Tekek. Similar Project Working Group (PWG) meeting was conducted on the 5th April 2013 for Pulau Tioman with the similar stakeholders as in Pulau Redang. The stakeholders for all three island in the project are from similar agencies with different person in-charge for the state of Terengganu (Pulau Redang), Pahang (Pulau Tioman) and Johor (Pulau Sibu-Tinggi).

The River Ranger Training of Trainer (ToT) was conducted from 6th and 7th of April 2013 at Persona Island Resort. The first day on the training involves presentation of the River Ranger Module, preparation for hands-on activity and river mapping at the school. During the second day participants were given a chance to conductwater sampling at Sungai Air Pupuk at Air Batang in Pulau Tioman which was identified as one of clean stream available at Tekek. This involves hands-on activity where students conducted physical, chemical and biological monitoring. After the water sampling activity participants were then exposed to online data monitoring and blog where students included their water quality data results into River Ranger Website (click here).

School Pollution and Drainage Mapping which was conducted at S.K and S.M.K Tekek in Pulau Tioman was one of the interesting programme where students were asked to identify their water source as well as their discharge points. Moreover students were also exposed on water auditing. Water Auditing involves mapping of all water sources and where it goes. Students were also exposed on how to check for leaks from the toilet taps and pipes and were told to report to the schools in future of the leakages to avoid water wastage.


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