Mangrove Rehabilitation with PAPSIMCO
In the last couple of months, our volunteers have been a great help to the local women of PAPSIMCO (Palayuhan, Palimpinon and Siit Multipurpose Cooperative). PAPSIMCO is one of the people’s [...]
Planting mangroves in Tambobo
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 [...]
Moving the MCP mangrove nursery
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. [...]
Surveying for windowpane oysters
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 [...]
Why our smelly backyard is important
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 [...]