Angelique Songco — known in the Philippines as “Mama Ranger” — has worked to protect one of the world’s most important ocean ...

The Tubbataha Reef Marine Park covers 96.828 ha, including the North and South Atolls. It is a unique example of an atoll reef with a very high density of marine species; the North Islet serving as a ...

and the upgrading of the Tubbataha Reef Ranger Station and the Snake Island Station in Palawan. Last February, the DENR conducted integrated research on biodiversity conservation and carbon ...

The Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee approved, in 1996, a sum of US$ 20,000, for the implementation of a project entitled "Protection and Information and Education Campaign for the ...

Google Maps has entered the West Philippine ... of the Philippines over China's claims in the South China Sea, saying that it had "no legal basis." The decision also ruled that the Ayungin Shoal, the ...

The West Philippine Sea has a rich biodiversity that contributes ... The other stations are the Tubbataha Reef Ranger Station and Snake Island Station in Palawan and the Verde Island Passage ...

Other denizens include eight breeding seabird, 13 marine mammal, 11 shark and two sea turtle species. “Few reefs within the Coral Triangle come close to the biological productivity of Tubbataha,” ...

MANILA, Philippines ... in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). The DENR announced it will conduct integrated research on biodiversity conservation at the Recto Bank and Rizal Reef in April, and ...

Beneath is a modest garden of branching and soft corals - not quite like Tubbataha ... war against these marine enclaves. Now the Philippines, together with Indonesia, hosts the world's most ...