An eight-year-old boy from Mindoro was conferred an award by an international conservation group for saving a beached dolphin on the coast of San Teodoro in Oriental Mindoro last September 13. Carl Andrei Leuterio, a third-grade pupil from the San Teodoro Central School in Oriental Mindoro, was the first to report the stranding to authorities. “Four of us were playing by the sea when we saw the dolphin. It was as big as a whale … but it looked so weak. I told the grown-ups about it,” Leuterio said. Due to heavy rains, a 2.5-meter long, 400 kilogram Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) was found ailing by the shoreline of Barangay Poblacion in San Teodoro at around 1 p.m. last September 2.

De Vera, E. B. (2010, September 15). Boy, 8, gets int'l award for saving 400-kg dolphin. Manila Bulletin, pp. 1, 9.