Nominated for Kalpataru 2010
Divers Lodge Lembeh

We are very proud to announce that Rob Sinke, owner of Divers Lodge Lembeh is nominated to receive the national reward for protection and conservation of the environment: Kalpataru 2010 with category Rescuer Area, by the Government of Indonesia.

Early this year, Rob Sinke was also officially inaugurated by the Major of Bitung as "Pala" - Kepala Lingkungan (a kind of village leader under head of village) with a broader task to look after the environment of the whole Lembeh Strait/Island. Thanks to the government of Bitung and the local people for putting their trust.

Komentar 24 March 2010 main page about Bule Belanda (Western, Dutch), Rob Sinke is nominated to receive Kalpataru 2010	Manado Post main page about the First "Pala Bule" Sinke family (Rob, Linda, Adrian) with major of Bitung: Mr. Hanny Sondakh and head of South Lembeh District: Mr. Forsman Dandel

Below are some examples of eco-friendly inovation/activities used/done by Divers Lodge Lembeh:

An Eco Friendly Dive Resort on Lembeh Island

Situated in a beautiful natural settings of 25 hecatares forest and mangroves and surrounded by the sea of Lembeh Strait, Divers Lodge Lembeh is dedicated to maintain an Eco-friendly (environmentally friendly) dive resort on Lembeh island by implementing eco-friendly technologies such as Solar Water Heater to provide warm shower in the resort, Ultra low emission outboard engines at all of our 9 dive boats, and Solar Power is partly providing the electricity and 2 wind turbines to provide electricity by using wind energy.

Wind turbines

Solar Water Heater

Ultra low emission outboard engines

Our electricity is partly Solar Power

Environmental care activities for Lembeh Strait

Moorings for dive boats and local traditional fishing boats

Divers Lodge Lembeh actively installed moorings in Lembeh Strait since 2003. Starting 2007, Rob Sinke the owner, invented a better way to make a stronger bouy with low cost. Rob then start making some bouy (with private budget) and installed it in some divesites. As this went successfull and used by dive boats and local traditional fishing boat, Rob then promoting it to resort/divecenters around Bitung/Manado to participate in building more moorings with 1 resort 1 moorings. There are also some guests donating. Now, there are at least 30 moorings installed all along Lembeh Strait and all are well used and maintained.

Moorings/Bouy construction

Moorings used by dive boats or fishing boat

Garbage Cleaning

Divers Lodge Lembeh is involving a lot in cleaning the environment from garbage, take part in cleaning up Lembeh Strait, and quickly report to the responsible officials if there is any industry polution.

Thanks to the government of Bitung for their successful program of "Healthy Life & Environmentally friendly" that everyone now can see the city is very clean and there are much much less trash on the water.

DLL staff cleaning the beach and the water

DLL staff collecting samples of coconut oil polution. Until now this is not happening anymore

Cleaning Lembeh Strait with marinir

Stopping Illegal Fishing/Fish trading

Following case of stopping illegal fish trading was on 2007. On the way back home, in the harbour our staff notice a car fully loaded with plastic bag. Our diveguides then noticed that those plastic bag were actualy filled with fishes ready to transfer to other area. Andris, one of our diveguide then contact Rob whom then contact the local authorities and just in time the local police arrived and get all the fishes back to the boat of Divers Lodge Lembeh and together release all the fishes back to the sea :-)
Until now we haven't heard any similiar case happened.

Caught: the car full with plastic bag of fishes

Andris, our guide quickly notice the ribbon eel

together with local police release all the fishes

Saving the turtles and other fauna

Releasing the turtle	Releasing the turtle	Turtle back home
Turtle hatch on Divers Lodge beach	Baby turtle just hatched	Baby turtle released in front of the beach here
Shy, beautiuful Snake Photo by: Daniel Renggli	Tarsius If you're lucky you can see 6 of them on the beach here, at day time Photo by: Bram Kuijper	Monitor Lizard Quiet often spotted at the resort

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