Two groups have extended their collaboration to protect and restore corals within 6,000 sq km of the ocean bed in Malaysia and the Philippines. The renewed partnership of CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions; and Endangered Species International (ESI), a non-profit organization, will be until November 2025. The collaboration will continue the initial coral conservation and restoration set between July 2021 and July 2023 at three protected sites, namely: between Balabac Island (the Philippines) and Pulau Banggi (Malaysia), site 1; Negros in central Philippines, site 2; and Sarangani Bay in Mindanao in southern Philippines, site 3.

2 groups extend collaboration to protect, restore coral cover in Coral Triangle. (2024, January 28). Business Mirror, p. A7.