Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park lies in a unique position in the centre of the Sulu Sea. The area is home to a great diversity of marine life and protects an area of almost 100,000 hectares of high quality marine habitats containing three atolls and a large area of deep sea. […]

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park lies in a unique position in the centre of the Sulu Sea. The area is home to a great diversity of marine life and protects an area of almost 100,000 hectares of high quality marine habitats containing three atolls and a large area of deep sea. […]

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park lies in a unique position in the centre of the Sulu Sea. The area is home to a great diversity of marine life and protects an area of almost 100,000 hectares of high quality marine habitats containing three atolls and a large area of deep sea. […]

Expedition Location In 2019, the SPR expedition was conducted in the Municipalities of Moalboal and Badian,Cebu Province, Philippines. The Municipalities of Moalboal and Badian border the watersof the Tañon Strait which has national protection under the National Integrated ProtectedAreas System (NIPAS) (Dolar et al 2006; Tiongson and Karczmarski 2016). Moalboal […]

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park lies in a unique position in the centre of the Sulu Sea. The area is home to a great diversity of marine life and protects an area of almost 100,000 hectares of high quality marine habitats containing three atolls and a large area of deep sea. […]

Moalboal lies in the waters of the Tañon Strait, which is a NIPAS (National Integrated Protected Areas System) declared protected area. Moalboal has four locally-declared and managed marine sanctuaries which implement a user-fee system that generates income for the local communities. Expedition Location The 2013 Saving Philippine Reefs expedition was […]

Tubbataha Reef Natural Park declared a World Heritage Site in 1994, lies in the global center of marine biodiversity. The two atoll reefs that form Tubbataha are the best regional example of a well-protected, no fishing, marine park that contains a very diverse and abundant array of fish, corals and […]

The Calamian Islands represent one of the most biodiverse rich groups of islands in the Philippines owing to the incredible range of islands, shorelines, habitats, geologic structures, oceanographic currents and interfaces with offshore systems in the South China Sea and the northern Sulu Sea. Coral reef and sea grass beds […]

Known as the ‘Island Born of Fire’, Camiguin Island has developed into a resource base for ecotourism and conservation education. With 31 MPA’s in the area it is linking conservation with economics through increasing the visibility of unique biodiversity species through marine protected area establishment and management. Expedition Location Camiguin […]