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The Baliangao Protected Landscape and Seascape is a wetland conservation area along the coast of Danao Bay in northern Misamis Occidental, Philippines.Situated on the territory of four barangays in the municipality of Baliangao (Misom, Sinian, Tugas and Landing), it covers 294.10 hectares (726.7 acres) of terrestrial and marine areas consisting of mangrove, sea grass and coral reef ecosystems.
She also became a Marine Conservation Action Fund fellow, which awarded her 50,000 Euros to build the first pelagic thresher shark sanctuary in the Philippines. The sanctuary is near Malapascua Island. [3] [1] With the award, she also began developing plans for data collection, marine management, and the establishment of a marine protected area ...
Protected areas in the Philippines encompasses 4,620,000 hectares (11,400,000 acres) of terrestrial areas and 3,140,000 hectares (7,800,000 acres) of marine areas. [1] They are managed according to the following classifications described in Section 4 of the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992 (NIPAS Act).
The wildlife of the Philippines includes a significant number of endemic plant and animal species. The country's surrounding waters reportedly [1] have the highest level of marine biodiversity in the world. The Philippines is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries and is a global biodiversity hotspot.
The Verde Island Passage is a strait that separates the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines, connecting the South China Sea with the Tayabas Bay and the Sibuyan Sea beyond. Traditionally, the sea lane has been one of the busiest in the Philippines because it acts as a corridor from the Port of Manila to the Visayas and Mindanao in ...
With the endorsement of the Provincial Government of Palawan, on August 11, 1988, President Corazon Aquino signed Proclamation no. 306 establishing the two Tubbataha Reefs as a national marine park with an area of 332 square kilometres (82,000 acres). This was the first time that the Philippines had declared a marine area as a national park ...
The World Wide Fund for Nature considers the region a top priority for marine conservation, and is addressing ecological threats to the region through its Coral Triangle Program, [13] launched in 2007. The center of biodiversity in the Triangle is the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines. [14]
AG Saño is a Filipino muralist, conservationist, photographer, landscape architect, and environmental activist [1] best known for numerous prominent advocacy murals along main thoroughfares around the Philippines' National Capital Region, [2] promoting themes including marine wildlife conservation, [3] peace, [4] environmental protection, [5] indigenous people's rights, and the recognition of ...