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Protecting Philippine Corals

Coral After Blast Fishing

The Philippines is blessed with having a lot of coral reefs, which are not only nice to look at; they’re also sanctuaries for fish and other marine animals. The problem is that there are people who are actively destroying these reefs – people who harvest the reefs, for sale abroad; and fishermen using methods that [...]

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The Plunder of the Philippine Coral Reefs

Plunder.of.Philippine.Coral.Reefs.Infographic

Click here to enlarge infographic by Officially Philippines Learning the A-B-Seas I was raised to love and protect the environment. My dad is an environmental lawyer, so what I thought was an ordinary childhood involved rescuing sea turtles and juvenile sharks, tagging along reforestation projects, and earning my scuba diving license at 15 years old. [...]

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Join the June 8 Blog Action Day to Save our Coral Reefs and Seas!

Join the June 8 Blog Action Day to Save our Coral Reefs and Seas!

Our beautiful and diverse marine resources and wealth need your attention and your help. They are under attack. Exploitative foreign firms, in tandem with local partners and left unchecked by irresponsible government officials, are illegally harvesting and peddling our precious coral reefs. In one case, coral reefs twice the size of Manila was destroyed, and [...]

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