Cebu Marine Animal Rescue Network

10/08/2025

10/08/2025

10/08/2025

Why Do Cetaceans Strand? 🐋 | Strandings can happen for many reasons — some natural, some human-induced.

In the Philippines, many strandings happen right after or during an extreme weather event like typhoons. Some animals appear healthy externally, but without necropsy, the cause remains unknown.

📣 If you see a stranding, report it immediately to BFAR, DENR, or your LGU. Every report helps improve our response and protect marine life. 💙

02/08/2025

02/08/2025

This gentle giant.

02/08/2025

Stranding Report - Pilot Whale in Guimbal, Iloilo
📍 Brgy. Rizal, Guimbal, Iloilo
🗓️ July 28, 2025

A pilot whale—locally referred to as rumba-rumba—was found stranded along the shoreline of Brgy. Rizal, Guimbal, Iloilo.

The whale was spotted by a jogger who could not determine if it was already deceased. According to early reports, the animal may have become entangled in a fishing net and was seen returning repeatedly to shore despite efforts by a fisherman to guide it back to deeper water.

📣 If you witnessed this or have photos or videos to share, please contact us or report to BFAR Region 6.

Every report helps us learn more and respond better.

02/08/2025

Happy Birthday to the founding member of Cebu Marine Animal Rescue Network, Dr Rose Vincoy

13/07/2025

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13/07/2025

20/06/2025

Scenes from 2025

"Good news about coral reefs is pretty rare these days. Most of what we hear tends to deal with degradation and loss. Tubbataha Reefs are a welcome change! In two weeks of surveying and research, we witnessed a reef that is brimming with life, evidently wants to live and is assisted in this endeavor by serious and consequential conservation efforts. While also on Tubbataha, the signs of recent bleaching-induced mortality are evident in many places, the regeneration dynamics are impressive, with coral recruits everywhere, algal turfs being kept in check by a high fish biomass, coral diseases, and predation at very low levels (although present). Much of this probably has to do with the efficient management and protection by Philippine authorities, who maintain a constant presence through patrolling and monitoring, even though the reef is about 50 km from land. There is very little direct human impact, other than the issues caused by climate factors. The most promising sign for the reefs’ future is the evident care and affection by its multi-agency and NGO management team, who all work together in harmony to ensure the future of this natural jewel. In four decades of working on coral reefs around the world, I haven’t seen a more beautiful and better cared-for coral reef. Tubbataha is truly a jewel, a well-managed World Heritage site. It fully deserves this title, and the people working hard to keep it this way need to be congratulated."

- Dr. Bernhard Riegl, Executive Director of the National Coral Reef Institute and a Professor at Nova Southeastern University’s Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, is a biologist and geologist specializing in coral reef ecology, conservation, and seafloor mapping. His extensive research spans coral reefs worldwide, including the Red Sea, Arabian Gulf, Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean.

Last May, Dr. Riegl, along with other NSU scientists, visited Tubbataha to study fish behavior and coral reefs.

📷TMO/Jon Cabiles