Puerto Galera Coastal Resources and Marine Biodiversity Conservation Project

Puerto Galera was designated by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve, encompassing a 51-km coastline and 12,000 hectares of marine waters. Old-growth and second-growth forests, mangroves, coral reefs are the dominant habitat types here. WWF-Philippines completed participatory coastal resource assessments, resource and socio-economic studies. The results of the PCRAs and WWF-Philippines surveys will be validated as part of the stakeholder planning process. Local marine protected areas (MPAs) will be identified, established and managed by host communities and an enforcement program will be launched. This project is supported by USAID through WWF-US.To know more about this project,
please email jcantos@wwf.org.ph