Our
organization chose an all-encompassing approach to
conservation:
Beside collecting
eggs and operating the hatchery, Palawan Marine Life Foundation
patrols the no-fishing
zone around the
island and provides job training to villagers. In the near future former
poachers could
become park rangers
or work as tourist guides bringing tourists to snorkel in the coral
reef. Their wives
will work in tourist
industry.
The foundation is
introducing a diet-enrichment program where all needy families
will receive young fruit
trees to plant,
vegetable seeds to sow and milking goats for the
poorest families. A
volunteer medical
doctor will live in
the central village and offer free medical care for
all children on a regular basis.
We are planning to build a
small village of houses for the poorest of poor in cooperation
with
http://www.gawadkalinga.org/. The site is being prepared appr. 25 minutes
drive from Puerto.
Core of our activity
is sea turtle preservation program, focused on turtle research
station and hatchery.
Rare dugons (sea cows) visit the
sanctuary from time to time.
The island is surrounded by a reef which
has to be mapped,
examined and repaired where
necessary.
