Tubbataha reef survey - April 2006 In April 2006 I was very lucky to be invited by Angelique Songco, the manager of the Tubbataha UNESCO World Heritage Reef, to join her staff aboard the WWF research vessel Minerva (thanks again Angelique!). We spent spent a week in the middle of the Sulu Sea with Angelique and her amazing staff of Park Rangers who make huge personal sacrifices to spend three months at a time protecting the reef from poachers from as far away as China. The reefs of Tubbataha are the most spectacular I've ever seen, with visibility sometimes reaching 120 feet and a huge variety of large pelagic fish, sharks, and more sea turtles in one day than I think I had previously seen in the past year.(Click
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