Fieldwork

For those of you who are not familiar with Basay, it is the most western municipal of Negros Oriental facing the Sulu Sea, about a two hour drive from MCP. It is a gorgeous, little coastal town [...]

What better way to experience mangroves than to actually stick your feet into the nutrient-rich mud and plant a mangrove sapling! On the 25th of January, I met Evelyn, one of the members of [...]

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 [...]