MANILA, Philippines - Lying at the heart of the Asia-Pacific region is the Coral Triangle, a spectacular underwater world brimming with wealth of unparalleled proportions. The Coral Triangle is the ...

Although the marine life was still wonderful, and the amount of fish and corals still amazing, there was no mistaking it: Coral bleaching was happening in the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (TRNP), the ...

Liveaboard ships, which are really floating hotels packed with dive gear, compressors, tanks, chase boats and the dive pros are the only way divers can access this marine park. Getting up in the quiet ...

Chinese poachers, many third-time offenders, were caught in the Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park, one of the world's richest and most diverse marine ecosystems. Manilla, Philippines - It should ...

Rationale: Tubbataha is a no-take area and the only activities allowed are tourism, which generates funds for conservation, and research. Since the late 1970s, when dive tourism "discovered" Tubbataha ...

One of the characters that I thought of after the minesweeper USS Guardian ran aground in and destroyed parts of Tubbataha Reef on Jan. 17 was Nemo, the clownfish who is the object of a transocean ...

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY—Defense officials and investigators looking into the grounding of a Chinese fishing boat on an atoll in Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park may not be dealing with an accident but an ...

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 ...

Gloves, part of a scuba-diver’s gear, protect the fingers from poisonous stings when the hands hang on to a rock or coral. At the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in Sulu, southern Philippines, however, ...

The Philippines’ Tubbataha Reef was recently recognized by an international policy research body for the excellent care of the heritage site, hailed as a model in coral reef conservation. The World ...

A pending Supreme Court case is no excuse for the PH government not to demand compensation from the US for the Tubbataha grounding MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Politics and questions of state ...

Batman has his Batcave, Darth Vader had two Death Stars and Voltes V had Camp Big Falcon. For the rangers standing vigil over the Philippines’ top coral reef, home is the Tubbataha Ranger Station -- ...