🇵🇭Philippines

LAMAVE is a Philippine non-profit researching and protecting whale sharks, manta rays, turtles, and other marine megafauna nationwide.

Seahorse photos uploaded by ordinary divers revealed a Philippine hot spot, and local communities answered by creating a new marine protected area.

The Philippines' native giant clam was written off as extinct in the 1980s, until a hatchery in Palawan found survivors, spawned 132 million of them, and started planting them back on protected reefs.