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Apo Island: Saving a Coral Reef and its Fishery
- Producer: Damon Wolf
- Download: etp-apo.mp4.zip (145mb - save, unzip then play)
- A marine sanctuary at Apo Island in the Philippines set in motion community fisheries management that reversed a vicious cycle of destructive fishing and depletion of fish stocks, restoring the island’s coral reef ecosystem and rescuing a fishing village’s livelihood and wellbeing. Apo Island’s success has inspired 700 other fishing villages to establish marine sanctuaries.
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