THE town of Moalboal, one of Cebu’s top beach and dive destinations located along the Tañon Strait, took part in the recent International Coastal Clean-up Day, a global initiative for the protection and preservation of the coastal and marine ecosystems.
The coastal town held a first-ever simultaneous clean-up drive in two locations, spearheaded by the municipal government in collaboration with tourism stakeholders.
Situated between Cebu and Negros provinces, Tañpm Strait boasts of 8,408 hectares of coral reefs with 41 common coral genera, 4,108 hectares of mangrove forests with 46 known species, and is habitat to 48 percent of the archipelago’s cetaceans, and 12 of the country’s 16 seagrass species.
It is also home for the famed sardine run, a popular dive site because of a multitude sardines found along the Panagsama Beach and Pescador Island, a limestone islet which has been declared a marine park and fish sanctuary.
