{"id":2556,"date":"2015-08-07T00:05:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/cnt\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2015-08-07T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:05:48","slug":"verde-island-passage-marine-eden-of-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiadivers.com\/cnt\/blog\/verde-island-passage-marine-eden-of-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Verde Island Passage: Marine Eden of the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/cnt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/08a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2557\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/cnt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/08a1-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><b>Photo by Beth Watson<\/b><\/p>\n<p>More on why Puerto Galera is just so awesome! From Manila Today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manilatoday.net\/verde-island-passage-marine-eden-of-the-pacific\/\">http:\/\/www.manilatoday.net\/verde-island-passage-marine-eden-of-the-pacific\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Verde Island Passage Marine Corridor (VIP) is famously known as \u201cthe center of the center of marine biodiversity\u201d (Carpenter and Springer, 2005). It is the proverbial heart of the Coral Triangle, the apex of aquatic life on Earth. The Passage\u2019s 900,000 square-kilometer area is home to 60% of the world\u2019s known shorefish species, and even as much has yet to be explored in its waters.<\/p>\n<p>Marine life here has the highest levels of endemism and biodiversity anywhere. Scientists counted 1,736 species in a mere 10-by-10 kilometer area. This includes more than 300 coral species and 32 mangrove species in Batangas alone, 20 seagrass species in Balayan Bay and Mindoro Oriental, 162 fish species, rare enclaves of clams, endangered sea turtles, and more. You don\u2019t need to be a mathematician to be astounded of the plentitude of creatures that live in the VIP.<\/p>\n<p>Just this June 2015, scientists from the California Academy of Sciences found more than 100 rare and new species in the Passage. A sea urchin species long thought to have disappeared over the past 230 years was also recently \u2018rediscovered\u2019 in the VIP.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Beth Watson More on why Puerto Galera is just so awesome! 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