Environmental Education Day
The 18th of July concluded MCP’s first environmental education day (first of many monthly trips to come with the Zamboanguita Science High School.) The day began with a tour of Siit Arboretum, [...]
Podcast: Thermal stress and decompression
All scuba divers know than when we dive we load our body with inert gas, and as we ascend we start offloading gas, (granted this is simplified and doesn’t take into consideration loading [...]
The importance of parrotfish poo
Humans usually have one gender. Fish are much more interesting gender wise. Some species grow up as male, others as female and change sex later in life. Some fish are born without a gender and [...]
Ready for Reef Check surveys
A week ago we organized a practice reef survey and a re-test for all the participants of the Reef Check course in December. In order to do a Reef Check survey you need to be able to recognize a [...]
Volunteers in action
We have been working with our first group of volunteers, Ranum Efterskole from Denmark. Since they came a whopping 36 at once, that made it a bit of a challenge. But with the weather on our side, [...]
Strengthening MPA boundaries
One of the first official happenings in which we could participate as MCP in the municipality of Zamboanguita was helping resetting the boundaries for an already existing Marine Protected Area [...]
How do seals avoid getting bent?
Many divers are under the impression that decompression sickness can only occur if you breathe while under water. (Either with conventional scuba equipment or possibly a rebreather) This is [...]
Birth Control and ecology in the Philippines
One of the hotly debated issues in the Philippines at the moment is birth control. While many Filipinos want it, the church does not and has succesfully been stalling the “reproductive [...]