The Marine Park Tubbataha Reef, on the island of Palawan, in the Philippines, covering about 33,200 hectares. The Tubbataha Reef is extremely important from an ecological point of view to the Philippines as a supply and cradle of marine life.
Marine Park Tubbataha Reef was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the year 1993 being extended such rating in June 2009.
Flora and fauna
In this reef are cataloged 396 species of coral. There are 479 species of 46 families of fish, such as barracuda and manta. Tubbataha is also home to six species of sharks.
Diving
The magnificent underwater scenery with its biodiversity also has many recreational divers dressed. Although the reef can be visited because of the rough sea from mid-March to mid-June and the arrival by boat from Puerto Princesa takes 11 to 15 hours (depending on the boat and weather conditions), the appeal shall be in divers more. Still reach the atolls only less than a thousand people per year. The visibility is depending on conditions 15 to 40 m, and on some days - especially in May - up to 45 m.
In the Tubbataha atolls sudden, extreme, dangerous for inexperienced divers vertical and horizontal movements occur.
Mariner National Park
The Philippine president Corazon Aquino declared on 11 August 1988, the reef and the surrounding National Park Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park. Ensure that the commercial fishing and the collection of coral were prohibited, which is almost but only slowly, then in February 2000 by the establishment of a permanent ranger station on a southern sand bank in the northern atoll enforce fully and comprehensively made. In 1993 the National Park was the UNESCO for World Heritage says.
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Flora and fauna
In this reef are cataloged 396 species of coral. There are 479 species of 46 families of fish, such as barracuda and manta. Tubbataha is also home to six species of sharks.
Diving
The magnificent underwater scenery with its biodiversity also has many recreational divers dressed. Although the reef can be visited because of the rough sea from mid-March to mid-June and the arrival by boat from Puerto Princesa takes 11 to 15 hours (depending on the boat and weather conditions), the appeal shall be in divers more. Still reach the atolls only less than a thousand people per year. The visibility is depending on conditions 15 to 40 m, and on some days - especially in May - up to 45 m.
In the Tubbataha atolls sudden, extreme, dangerous for inexperienced divers vertical and horizontal movements occur.
Mariner National Park
The Philippine president Corazon Aquino declared on 11 August 1988, the reef and the surrounding National Park Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park. Ensure that the commercial fishing and the collection of coral were prohibited, which is almost but only slowly, then in February 2000 by the establishment of a permanent ranger station on a southern sand bank in the northern atoll enforce fully and comprehensively made. In 1993 the National Park was the UNESCO for World Heritage says.
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