Fieldwork

Saturday 28th of July and the normal MCP Saturday routine would have to hold off for one more week. This Saturday would start earlier and more frantically than most. By 7am, three of MCP’s reef [...]

As part of the educational activities of Marine Conservation Philippines, we are delighted to work with Foundation University, Dumaguete and collaborate with their National Service Training [...]

Harsh habitat and adaptations Mangrove refers to all halophytic plants, meaning plants that grow in saline soils. They live in a harsh environment – wet saline habitat along tropical coastlines. [...]

Two weeks ago MCP celebrated Earth Day by removing two predators of hard corals- Crown of Thorns (COT) sea stars and Drupella snails. These predators are generally healthy for the biodiversity of [...]

When I originally decided to do an internship with MCP I had no idea what my project would be about. I communicated (a LOT!) with Ashley Carreiro, one of the staff members at MCP, brainstorming [...]

If you have had the opportunity to read MCP’s previous blogposts, then you may have met Rita, the smiling girl who dedicated herself to a sedimentation trap project for 2.5 months in early 2017. [...]

I came to Marine Conservation Philippines (MCP) as a Dive Master in Training (DMT) in 2016. I knew I wanted to do my Dive master course at a marine conservation centre rather than a recreational [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]