Gili Eco Trust – Volunteer – Protect – Donate

Biorock

The Biorock technology is a novel technique to create artificial coral reefs, this way Gili Eco Trust restores the coral reefs around the Gili Islands.

Ecotourism

We offer a whole range of ecotourism information and tours! When you drop by, you can help the island even if you’re here for only a short visit.

Waste Management

Gili Eco Trust manages the waste collection and recycling on Gili Trawangan. With different strategies and initiatives, we’re tackling trash on the island!

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We could hardly believe our luck when we were reported to a mama Hawksbill turtle nesting on the beach late last week. This critically endangered species can be often seen frequenting Gilis reefs. We have to continue to protect our turtle species on the Gilis, just because there seems to be plentiful turtles lazing in the shallows, doesn't secure their future... With the help of the amazing @noval_hendrians and his passionate team of Gili Boys, we hope this nest and many more will be protected from poachers trying to steal the eggs or sell them to harmful hatcheries. This way we can start to safeguard the future of this species and our wonderful populations of turtles around the Gilis for many more decades to come.

YOU can help too! If you see a turtle around Gilis, be sure to give it at least 2 meters of space, do not get too close, or touch them. They don't need help feeding so please don't feed them sea grass or bread, and if you see a turtle on the beach ready to nest, call us so we can come down and help control and educate the crowds without distressing the mother.

#turtle #noplastic #hawksbillturtle #marinescience #marineconservation #oceanminded ##ourblueplanet #saynotosingleuseplastic #diving #scuba #ocean #sea #turtlenest #babyturtle #turtleconservation #tropical #turtle #turtles #seaturtle #greenseaturtle #underwater #natureart #nature #naturelovers #endangeredspecies #racingextinction #criticallyendangered #sealife

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We met the lovely @nadiaanjanis founder of @koa_bayanjanis at the @lombok.eco.flea.market in December where we put in an order for her beautiful hand made, all natural and plastic free shampoo bars. We now have 5 different flavours in stock! - Aloe Vera - Coconut - -Peppermint - Green Tea - Fragipani -
Come and grab a naked bar for only 60k or shampoo bars with travel tins for 75k, offering you a great on-the-go shampoo for more than 2 months per bar without the need for plastic bottles of liquid shampoo!

Have you made the switch to a plastic free shampoo? Were you a changed human straight away, or did it take time to get used to? We would love to know!

#shampoobar #noexcuseforsingleuse #koabyanjanis #gilitrawangan#giliislands #giliisland #lombok#indonesia#indotravellers#ecofriendly#sustainable#sustainableliving#visitindonesia#wonderfulindonesia#lombok#lombokisland#islandlife#islandliving #shampoobar#shampoo#haircare#hairproducts#lowwastetravel#naturalbeauty#natural#naturalproducts#ecofriendly#sustainable#sustainableliving#love#earth#zerowaste#homemade#lowwasteliving

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Have you ever completed any field research studies? We are so lucky some of ours are in a setting like this!

We are continuing to use the easy, fun, citizen science method of the @microplasticsurvey! We have started up our 3rd year of surveys to compare the quantity of microplastics found on our beaches in rainy season and dry season. Our last survey was July last year, when it was dry and we are very interested to see the contrast in results.

We spend so much time focusing on larger plastic debris (simply and sadly as there is so much of it on our beaches) that sometimes we forget the destruction caused by these tiny little pieces. We hope the results of our surveys not only contribute towards this global study of beach microplastic data, but also can raise awareness locally with the problems with bean bags in beach side bars and single use plastic straws in restaurants.
#citizenscience #research #microplastics #plasticpollution #oceanissues #lessplastic #singleuseplastic @justoneocean @portsmouthuni #makeadifference #oceanplastic #plasticpollution #lessplastic #lesswaste#marineconservation #oceans #environment #microplastics #banthebead #gilit #gilitrawangan #beachsurvey #volunteerinparadise #tropical #womeninscience #plasticfreeparadise #noexcuseforsingleuse

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For all of your environmental needs! We aim to have our little eco charity shop open Monday - Saturday 11am till 4pm.

Please drop in for a chance to: 💍Pick up an upcycled trash souvenir
👝Zero waste travel items
♻️Learn about how and why we recycle on Gili
📚Bring a book, swap a book in our book swap shop
👗Check out our pre-loved sale rail of clothes
🚴‍♀️Sign up for an eco tour
🐱Cuddle our many foster cats 🌴If you have any questions regarding eco tourism or sustainable activities around the Gilis

We are a little bit hidden away on the street behind Sama Sama, with our new cat loving neighbours at @wonderfullyweirdartshop but we are always happy for a chat or discussion about how to save our planet!

We left our sign out in the rain today... check out how clean it is!! #savetheworld #ecowarrior #ecotourism #ecotourist #livelowwaste #lowwastelifestyle #plasticfreeforthesea #ecoshop #zerowaste #ecofriendly #sustainableliving #plasticfreeshopping #zerowasteshop #bambootoothbrush #gilit #gilitrawangan #jalanikanhiu #ikanhiu #bookswap #preloved #buysecondhand #fleamarket #catlover #ecotour #mondayfunday

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Smirnoff have taken the problems with plastic pollution to the next level! Encouraging bars that use their drinks to switch to paper cups educating the consumer on how to start to do the right thing for the earth.
This is by no means the final answer, as they are still single use and instead of finding plastic cups on the beach, we recovered these paper cups.
As much as it is up to the consumer to start to make the right choice (big little wins every day!) to see businesses taking a few simple steps is groundbreaking for how many beach side parties and plastic pollution that comes with it occur on Gili Trawangan every night.

#gilitrawanganisland #plasticfreeparadise #giliislands #beachcleanup #plasticfreeoceans #goodtimes4theearth #noexcuseforsingleuse #beachclean #finditfillit #fillthebottlechallenge #ecofriendly #papercup #environment #beachcleanups #balisbiggestbeachclean #smirnoff #smirnoffbali #smirnoffvodka #ecotourism #drowninginrubbish #gilit #gilitrawangan #giligoesgreen #plasticfree #plasticfreecafe #plasticbeach

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Have you met Molly? We caught up with her on yesterday's Debris Free Friday where it was very apparent of her love of beach cleaning and saving our planet from plastic!

Molly and her mum spotted our eco-tourism activities on the back page of a menu in @balesampanbungalows and managed to fill her bag full of marine litter and styrofoam balls whilst excitedly telling us of her love of the ocean and its animals, most especially sharks!

Mini eco-warriors make the best eco-warriors and it is really Molly's generation that will be depending on our actions that we take today. Every tiny positive action, be it bringing your own bag, switching your home to renewable energy or committing to less plane travel is all going to be contributing to global efforts to really save our planet.
What actions, big or small, have you contributed to today to help our planet?! #ExtinctionRebellion #TheTimeIsNow #NoMoreBusinessAsUsual #kidsagainstplastic #kidsvplastic #youth4climate #plastic #plasticpollution #fridaysforfuture #FFF #F4F #savetheplanet #thereisnoplanetb #gilit #debrisfreefriday #plasticfreeparadise #startwith1thing #savetheoceans #oceanwarrior #miniecowarrior #ecowarrior
#fillthebottle #fillthebottlechallenge #livelowwaste #livesustainably #gilitrawangan #beachcleanup #cleanthebeaches

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Spending time with your loved ones this Valentines Day?
Our biggest love is the ocean... and our second biggest love is keeping it clean!! Join us for an extra special Debris Free Friday where we are showing our love for our ocean and our mother earth. If you can donate one hour of your time whilst on Gili Trawangan today then please join us with our friends at @gilidivers today at 5pm!
Now that we can collect and reuse cigarette butts, we have some new and exciting experiments to carry out on this Debris Free Friday... Come along and find out and get a free Bintang for your amazing eco-warrior actions!

#debrisfreefriday #beachcleanup #loveyourmother #beachclean #reducereuserecycle #notbuttsonthebeach #oceanplastic #saveouroceans #savetheplanet #actnow #beachdays #ocean #sea #planet #extremebeachcleaner #lovetheocean #oceanlove #valentinesdaylove #beachlove #somuchlove #nature #wild #oceanart #noexcuseforsingleuse #plasticfreeparadise #gilidivers #gilitrawangan #giligoesgreen

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Butt of a big game changer here!!
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We have been collecting cigarette butts from the beaches in plastic bottles for more than 5 years now in a #fillthebottlechallenge style movement!

Largely this is to show just how many we can collect from the beaches in a single hour... a large bottle can hold approx 1,000 butts, and a small bottle around 450 butts. Sadly each and every beach clean we do on the east side, we can collect up to 12,000 butts in a single hour with around 50 dedicated cleaners... Another important reason why we have been doing this, is to seal in the toxins from this plastic butt waste to prevent it leaching into our environment. Butts contain many toxins harmful to wildlife and the oceans... and after years of researching, we still haven't found any (local) trustworthy recycling solutions. Until now.... Ibu Aiysah, who we have been working closely in waste management, recycling and more recently in organic waste recycling collects these butt bottles to turn butt waste into a pesticide in local agriculture. We are delighted that now we can collect these large bottles and safely deliver them to Lombok for a second use instead of being sealed up and disposed of on Gili Trawangan's island dump!

If you are still a smoker... what do you do with your butts?

#nobuttsonthebeach #nobutts #buttbins #2minutebeachclean @fillthebottlechallenge #pickup1million #noexucseforsingleuse #plasticnotfanstastic #5minutebeachcleanup #plasticocean #stopplastic #take3forthesea #2minutebeachclean #beachclean #marinedebris #plasticpollution #cleanup #fillthebottle #activism #trash #trashpickup #plasticfreeparadise #climateactivism #debrisfreefriday #gilitrawangan #giligoesgreen #giligreenaward

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Gili Eco Trust
Jalan Ikan Hiu
Gili Trawangan
Lombok NTB
Indonesia

+62 (0)813 39 600 553

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Monday - Saturday: 11 am - 4 pm
Closed on Sunday and when we are on an ecomission!

The Twosome Pioneers explore the environmental projects of the Gili Eco Trust to find out how we all can make a positive change for our world.

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