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In 1990, the Sangguniang Bayan of Moalboal has declared Pescador Island as a marine park and fish sanctuary. [3] Since it is a marine park, [4] dive shops are required to pay a fee for each diver they bring to the island. Proceeds from entrance fees are managed by the Municipality of Moalboal and Moalboal Dive Center Association (MDCA) towards ...
Poverty incidence of Moalboal 10 20 30 40 50 2006 45.00 2009 48.92 2012 27.87 2015 26.58 2018 16.90 2021 33.46 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Moalboal is a peninsula and therefore it is almost entirely surrounded by water. The majority of the people who live in the flat lands engage in fishing as their main mode of livelihood. Those who live in the mountain regions like Agbalanga ...
Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific society, maintains a list of valid species and subspecies, most recently updated in October 2015. [1] This list follows the Society's taxonomy regarding and subspecies.
† Potamides Brongniart, 1810 - type genus, its type species is extinct [2] and the whole genus is extinct, [1] synonym: Pirenella Gray, 1847 [4] subgenus or synonym: † Ptychopotamides Saccho, 1895 [1] subgenus or synonym: † Mesohalina Wittibschlager, 1983 [1] subgenus or synonym: † Vicarya d'Archiac & Haimes, 1854 [3] [1]
Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic subclass of molluscs in the class Gastropoda.It is a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails.
A marine coastal ecosystem is a marine ecosystem which occurs where the land meets the ocean. Worldwide there is about 620,000 kilometres (390,000 mi) of coastline. Coastal habitats extend to the margins of the continental shelves, occupying about 7 percent of the ocean surface area.
On February 7, 2008, the Supreme Court of the Philippines ordered the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Energy to comment on a certiorari petition filed for baleen and toothed whales, dolphins, porpoises including the Irrawaddy dolphins, and other cetacean species in the Tañon Strait to stop oil exploration by Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd. in the ...
This species was first discovered in April 2001, and has been referred to as the "scaly-foot" gastropod since 2001. [8] It has been referred to as Chrysomallon squamiferum since 2003, but it was not formally described in the sense of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature until Chen et al. named it in 2015.