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our conservation projects

At Scuba Junkie it's no secret that we're passionate about the environment, both underwater and on land, and Scuba Junkie Penida is no different!
With the help of our conservation arm, Scuba Junkie SEAS, we hold several events and themed weeks throughout the year. These events such as Manta Week, Marine Week, Turtle Week, Shark Week as well as one day specials such as International Clean-up day are all supported with vigour. We aim to raise awareness of the threats surrounding the ocean environment among our guests and staff, plus the locals on the island. During these events we give presentations and hold workshops and outreach programmes with the local community.
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trash hero

We regularly participate in the weekly Trash Hero clean ups around the island. Every Monday we gather at 4:30pm at a different location on the island (usually on Penida's north coast). You can find the location for the cleanup each week on the Trash Hero Penida Facebook page.
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reducing plastic

We aim to keep our plastic use to an absolute minimum! We managed to speak to suppliers of our t-shirts and they now come without the plastic wrapper. We also switched our supplier of toilet paper and happily now have paper-wrapped rolls instead of unnecessary plastic! Our daily offerings do not come in plastic bags after speaking to our neighbours who supply them for us.
Where possible our supplies are bought locally, supporting growers and suppliers on Nusa Penida.
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internships

We offer diving internships for locals, growing them from people with an interest in diving to successful, safety conscious dive professionals who are passionate about their area.

event weeks

We invite the Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) over for our event weeks so that they can get out on the boat for their essential data collection dives, and send them our photos of manta ray bellies to assist with the Manta Matcher database.

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citizen science

We support citizen science initiatives and encourage our guests to submit their ID photos from their dive with us- Manta Matcher, Nusa Penida Turtles, Wildbook for Whale Sharks, and Match My Mola. We are also happy to upload photos for our guests if they're not able to do it by themselves.
Our main avenue for citizen science is contributing to Dive The Data for every single dive that we do… We note down any megafauna that we've seen on the dive along with the site, our depth, the temperature, the visibility, number of boats on the site and whether there was any plastic trash present. This is all uploaded daily and can be viewed by region on their website.

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CORALLIANCE SUPPORTERS

We are proud supporters of the Indo Ocean Project's Coralliance project - started in 2020 to provide income to locals by plantings corals on damaged areas of the reef. We offer our tanks, equipment and classroom space as they need it.
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mangrove nursery

We also have an Indo ocean project mangrove nursery in the resort since 2019. Mangrove propagules are collected the IOP interns and put into soil. We take the baby mangroves and house them in the nursery at the resort until they have grown tall enough and have 6 leaves, and then they can be planted on Nusa Ceningan or Lembongan.

Environmentally aware dive practices

As is the same at every Scuba Junkie location, we follow the S.E.A.S. guidelines - It's important that we all be have responsibly in the water to preserve the environment for future divers.

On the dive boat we provide natural (reef safe) soap spray for your mask, and we have rubbish bins so that nothing gets thrown overboard
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