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https://globalnation.inquirer.net/71317/philippines-asking-1-4-m-from-us-for-tubbataha-reef-damage

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http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/environment/155948-eroding-bird-islet-threatens-seabirds-tubbataha

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A preview to the trips we are organizing to Tubbataha Reef. We will have a private boat for April 1st - 7th 2015 and be able to help you get a place on the boat anytime of the season mid March to mid June. Please contact adventures@calypso-boracay.com for more information and prices.

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Tubbataha Philippines 17 to 23 June 2016 Trip Report

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For more information, please visit www.solitude-one.com

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http://philippineviewer.blogspot.com Tubbataha Reef Palawan, Luzon Tubbataha Reef is an atoll coral reef located in the Sulu Sea of the Philippines. It is a marine sanctuary protected as Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park. It is nominated at the New 7 Wonders of Nature.

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The composite team of marine park rangers was conceptualized in 1995 when a multi-sectoral Presidential Task Force was established to safeguard Tubbataha. This represented a shift in the national approach to natural resource management – a move towards decentralization and collaboration that was embraced by those involved in environmental conservation. The Republic Act 10067, known as the TRNP Act, provides the legal and institutional framework for enforcement in the Tubbataha Reefs.  The statute defines the authority of the Tubbataha Protected Area Management Board (TPAMB) to impose sanctions against violators.

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For over 30 years scientists have been fascinated by the marine life in Tubbataha. In 1982, a team from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute conducted one of the first surveys of the reefs. In 1997 WWF-Philippines took an important step to standardize research protocols so that data could be compared through time and the reefs monitored annually.

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The climate on our planet is changing! Human-induced climate change is perhaps the single biggest threat to the future of Tubbataha. The Philippines experienced major bleaching events in 1998 and 2010, the latter affecting 95% of corals. Both were caused by an El Niño weather phenomenon that increased the temperatures in the Indian Ocean and waters off Southeast Asia. Plastic garbage is a threat to marine animals as it is often mistaken for food, which can cause injury or death.

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This reef is mainly use for tourism, considered as a natural park. Weather used to be a natural barrier to the reef against humans. By the 1980s, many ships had motors and no longer relied on the wind. Fishermen from China and Taiwan would come to the reef to fish. Many of these fishermen resorted to destructive fishing techniques to maximize catch during their trips to Tubbataha.  They used dynamite to blast reef areas and cyanide solution, a poison that dazes fish and kills corals. One current problem is that Topshells, the protected shell species Trochus niloticus, are being stolen at night by people entering the park by boat from mainland Palawan.  The Topshells are sold and made into shirt buttons, jewellery and ornaments.

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Situated on the Cagayan Ridge, a string of extinct underwater volcanoes, Tubbataha is the Philippines' only true atoll structure. According the theory by Charles Darwin, atoll formation begins when a volcanic eruption gives birth to an island. So, it is believed that the atolls of Tubbataha began to form thousands of years ago as fringing reefs around volcanic islands.

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The Tubbataha Reef is located 150km southeast of Puerto Princesa City, at the heart of the Coral Triangle, the global centre of marine biodiversity. Tubbataha is composed of two huge coral atolls – the north atoll and the south atoll – and the Jessie Beazley Reef, a smaller coral structure about 20 kilometers north of the atolls.

The reefs of Tubbataha and Jessie Beazley are considered part of Cagayancillo, a remote island municipality roughly 130 kilometers to the northeast, inhabited mainly by fisher folk.