Onstage, Gregg Yan, Communications and Media Manager of WWF-Philippines, spoke of different dangers and ecological threats that Tubbataha Reefs is facing even in the presence of rangers who keep watch over it. Whilst, WWF-Philippines’ Vice Chairman and CEO Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan, emphasized on running a capital campaign to help raise funds in the construction of a new self-sufficient ranger station that should gainstay recurring threats like mounting poacher incursions, grounding incidents and climate change effects.
by Dylan Melgazo
(New Ranger Station for Tubbataha Reefs’ Rangers)
by Sophia Dedace
(At present, this is how the ranger station looks like. The styrofoam-reinforced structure has been battered by storms for more than 10 years.)
 Having had the chance to sit down with the CEO himself, after listening to a more relaxed but beneficial interview with Rovilson Fernandez, one of the ambassadors of WWF-Philippines, who expressed his enthusiasm recounting his first trip to Tubbataha, I was sufficiently fed the importance of building a new ranger station for passionate rangers who are taking care of so vast an area by themselves for months but with limited supplies and minimal support.
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by George Esguerra
(The ranger station when daylight fades)
Mr. Rovilson Fernandez
 For the most part, if we would like to keep a healthy reef, secure food for the future and not just tourism, if we wish to continue the conservation of a marine sanctuary which supports a huge ecosystem not simply because it’s a spectacular diving site that is within the Coral Triangle, then let us find out how. So that we, too, can take part on riding the waves of change.
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by Tet Lara
by Danny Ocampo
by Tet Lara
 When in Manila, especially in this kind of scorching hot weather, we dream of cool breeze, the sand, the shore… the beach! It’s also during this season that we wish we had a life, like Nemo’s, preferably in a haven no other than The Tubbataha Reefs.
Chances are, we no longer have to endure the effects of heat on land but become helpless, if not homeless, because of sea vessels which ran aground causing huge destruction to the coral reefs.
(Catch the sequel. Â See “Nemo and Friends Survival in the Reefs of Tubbataha“!)
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is the world’s largest and most experienced conservation organization, operating in over 100 countries through the support of nearly five million people worldwide. WWF-Philippines has been working as a national organization of the WWF network since 1997.
WWF’s mission is to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature.
For more information, log on to: wwf.org.ph
 WWF-Philippines and TMO Presents: Riding The Waves Of Change For Tubbataha Reefs
