Tubbataha-Reef News: SUPSALV & Finding El Faro, US Pays Philippines $1.97M For Reef Damage, Chinese Fishing Vessel On Tubbataha Reef, Tubbataha Reef Wreck. Friday, November 8, 2024.

In 2001, Songco applied to be park manager of Tubbataha, designated a protected area in 1988. Ever since, she has devoted her life to protecting the reef.

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park lies in a unique position in the centre of the Sulu Sea, and includes the Tubbataha and Jessie Beazley Reefs. It protects an area of almost 100,000 hectares of high ...

The park, which is about 375 square miles, consists of two atolls and a smaller coral reef about 12 miles north called Jessie Beazley Reef. As of last count, Tubbataha Reef had 791 species of fish ...

Tubbataha Reef. The Tubbataha Reef is in the Sulu Sea and is a stunning natural wonder. It’s a top spot for Philippines diving. This UNESCO World Heritage site covers over 97,000 hectares of ...

The Tubbataha Reef Marine Park covers 33,200 ha, including the North and South Reefs. It is a unique example of an atoll reef with a very high density of marine species; the North Islet serving as a ...

14 are foreigners, 2 Pinoys. MANILA, Philippines — Fourteen foreign tourists and two crewmembers of a yacht who visited the Tubbataha Reef in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan have contracted COVID.

Last March, to the delight of scuba divers, the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (TRNP) opened up to visitors for the first time in two years. It was indeed. Skip to content. OCTOBER 27, 2022.

THE Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (TRNP) is now officially an Asean Heritage Park (AHP). The Asean Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) handed over the certificate to the TRNP management on Thursday ...

In January 2013 the Navy mine countermeasures ship USS Guardian ran aground on a coral reef in the Philippines, inside Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park.

The law protecting the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park has garnered the Silver Award in the Future Policy Award 2012 for being a model of coral reef conservation.