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Press Release – June 23, 2015 WWF National Ambassadors Swim with Whale Sharks and Manta Rays For over a decade now, Donsol has been synonymous with whale sharks. Known locally as the Butanding, this gentle giant helped catapult the once sleepy town of Donsol in Sorsogon from a fifth-class municipality to a first-class town – all because of a community-based whale shark ecotourism program that WWF-Philippines and the local government established in 1998. Last month, […]
THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts presents the 2nd Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival on July 22-25, 2015. The Festival, which follows the huge success of the first Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival held in August 2013 will witness 16 foreign and local choirs compete in three categories: Folk Song, Vocal Ensemble and Chamber Choir. The competing Filipino choirs are […]
CORAL TRIANGLE – WWF, the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security, and development partners have launched an Instagram photo contest called I Heart Coral Triangle in celebration of the annual Coral Triangle Day*, which happens every 9 June. This social media contest, which runs from 22 May to 9 June, encourages people to take a photo of any heart-shaped object or natural material anywhere in the Coral Triangle region, post it […]
THE dredging of coral reefs to build artificial islands in the West Philippine Sea has alarmed conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). In April 2013, poaching vessel F/V Min Long Yu destroyed 3902 square meters of seabed in the Tubbataha Reefs. Ongoing reclamation in a half-dozen reefs has now obliterated 1.2 million square meters – 310 times the damage wrought on Tubbataha. Mechanical dredgers which cut, crush and compact corals have also stirred […]
