Tourists help save Boracay's corals
Excerpt
British tourist Christian Licursi and his Canadian friend, Michelle Girouard, attach small coral fragments to a framed plastic screen holder. They are joined by other volunteers on a floating platform, about a kilometer from Boracay Island’s coastline. The fragments, collected from damaged corals, are individually placed on the screen holder before scuba divers bring them to a depth of about 15 feet for transplanting into the coral reefs using a special clay epoxy. The volunteers hope that the 100 fragments they transplanted that day will grow so that the coral reefs will be rehabilitated.
Citation
Burgos, N. P. Jr. (2015, May 2). Tourists help save Boracay's corals. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A8.
Corporate Names
Personal Names
Geographic Names
Collections
- Philippine Daily Inquirer [1878]
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Local groups unite vs Boracay closure: Boracay Fundation, Inc. denies involvement in planned protests
(Panay News,April 13, 2018 , on page 13) -
#MoreFunForever: LaBoracay no more, but LoveBoracay now and always
Legaspi, John (Manila Bulletin,May 5, 2019 , on page E-4) -
Search for poop pipes starts: DENR sees 33 Boracay sites where feces, other untreated wastes pass through to the sea
Burgos, Nestor P. Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer,May 19, 2018 , on page A10)