Dubbed as “Mama Ranger,” Angelique Songco leads a small team of rangers protecting the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park from illegal fishing and poaching.

ANGELIQUE Songco, also known as “Mama Ranger,” was recognized as one of the US Secretary of State’s 2025 International Women ...

A long-time ranger, who oversees the protection and conservation of the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in Palawan, has been named among the 2025 International Women of Courage (IWOC) awardees, the U.S.

MANILA, Philippines — The US State Department has chosen a Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park keeper, popularly known as "Mama Ranger," as one of its 2025 International Women of Courage (IWOC), the US ...

Songco received the award for leading a team of marine park rangers who protect the 97,030-hectare Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, the Philippines’ largest protected area.

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 ...

ANGELIQUE Songco, the park ranger who in 2013 had insisted that the United States pay for damage by its grounded ship on the Unesco world heritage site Tubbataha Reef in Palawan, has been cited as one ...

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 ...

Visit www.wwf.org.ph for more information or to help ... (WWF-Philippines) Undersea Food Factory - Declared a World Heritage Site in 1993, the Tubbataha Reefs are amongst the richest and most ...

MANILA, Philippines — “Mama Ranger” Angelique Songco, the long-time park manager of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (TRNP) in Palawan, has been named one of the recipients of the US Department ...

Songco was awarded for her decades of work in leading a team of marine park rangers who protect the 97,030-hectare Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park Protected Area. During the award ceremony on April 1 ...