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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 ...
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 ...
This is the spectacular moment a huge whale shark ... Philippines. The footage from Milkie Espinosa Rodrigo and her friends shows the gentle giant approaching the group as they swam in Oslob, Cebu ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
MANILA, Philippines ... the whale sharks does no harm and is good for tourism, environmentalists have recommended that it be halted. Fishermen in Oslob in the central resort island of Cebu ...