Unlike many of the marine protected areas in the Philippines, Apo Island is more than just a paper park.Studies have demonstrated the benefits of the reserve for conservation and for local community livelihood. Apo Island has also become a...
It took Rodolfo Galuna only 15 days to build the small wooden boat he named "Rona". But now the 52-year-old fisherman has no use for it. Black, stinking oil sludge covers the boat’s hull, has crept into Galuna's back yard and quietly destroyed...
Mangrove roots and new shoots coated with oil.
Greenpeace activists and fishermen attempting to use oil booms made from local materials to protect beaches from spilled bunker oil.
Locals and Greenpeace activists, using makeshift booms to help contain some of the estimated 350,000 litres of bunker oil spilled from the single hulled Petron tanker.
Greenpeace diver Daniel Ocampo from the Philippines, after diving to anchor oil booms made from local materials being tested to protect beaches from bunker oil spilled from the sunken tanker.
Veteran actor, Joel Torre, joins Greenpeace volunteers in signing up Ocean Defenders.
"Mr. Acoustic" Paolo Santos, joins Greenpeace as an Ocean Defender.
Filipino rock band, Up Dharma Down, signs up as ocean defenders.
Broadcast celebrity, Pia Guanio enlists as an ocean defender.
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