We were to leave Cebu City in the Philippines at 5am on the dot to make sure we made our date with the largest fish in the world, the whale shark. We're in a rush because the best time to swim ...

Cebu, Philippines. Whale sharks are well known visitors to the Philippines and ... The second problem concerns jurisdiction; the afuera location is not inside any National Park boundary and it is not ...

A fisherman feeding whale sharks in the waters around Tan-Awan, a small town in Cebu.Credit... Supported by Photographs and Text by Hannah Reyes Morales TAN-AWAN, Philippines — In the predawn ...

Tourists swam with whale sharks at a beach attraction in the Philippines. Footage shows the visitors diving underwater five feet away from the marine creature in Cebu province, the Philippines on ...

Today, LAMAVE studies whale sharks in Donsol, Sogod Bay, Oslob, and two locations in Palawan. "The Philippines’ progression to the number two spot, highlights the global significance of the ...

DONSOL, Philippines ... researcher on whale sharks for WWF in Donsol. At the same time, sharks are being drawn in sizeable numbers to a tourism-focused operation in Oslob in Cebu province.

CEBU CITY, Philippines – On June 19, a Facebook post asserted that a town mayor in Cebu province wanted to “declare war” on whale sharks. The graphic used this quote from Dumanjug Mayor ...

Wildlife conservation groups in the Philippines have for years opposed whale shark tourism in Cebu's Oslob city, but local officials say the practice is a source of livelihood for the community.

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The small coastal barangay of North Granada in Boljoon town, southern Cebu, pleaded ignorance after being heavily criticized for mishandling a whale shark that was ...

Joshua Copping is a member of the Marine Conservation Society and the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Bryce Stewart has received funding from British research councils including NERC and ESRC, the ...