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In the last three years Marine Protected Ares (MPAs) have popped up all over the place. The even better news is that it almost looks like there’s a competition for each new MPA to wants to [...]

Mangroves are often seen as smelly, mosquito infested areas close to the crystal clear blue ocean. So why not chop down the trees and build a resort from which you can directly walk into the sea [...]

Everybody knows by now that plastic pollution getting worse. Each year another 12.5 mln tons of plastic enters the ocean. You probably have seen the horrible pictures in which seabirds and fish [...]

If you have been following marine oriented news sources in the last six months, you will have noticed a tremendous increase in bad news about the Great Barrier Reef. The biggest problem this reef [...]

With a group of volunteers we went to Siquijor where we removed 1300 Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (from now on COTs, the name is way too long) in 4 dives. COTs eat coral and if they occur in normal [...]

After 13 months of surveying, thousands of man hours and looking at 324 species of 18 different fish families, we have now completed our baseline survey! Admittedly we could have continued [...]

As part of our conservation efforts at MCP we are committed to working with young people to develop an awareness and appreciation for our amazing oceans. In a world where environmental concerns [...]

Same as last year in January, 22 students and 3 teachers visited MCP in the middle of January with five days of diving plus three cultural days (although science officer Dolf managed to sneak [...]

Humans usually have one gender. Fish are much more interesting gender wise. Some species grow up as male, others as female and change sex later in life. Some fish are born without a gender and [...]

A week ago we organized a practice reef survey and a re-test for all the participants of the Reef Check course in December. In order to do a Reef Check survey you need to be able to recognize a [...]