Marine Protected Areas in the PHILIPPINES
– Source: Asean Regional Centre for Biodiveristy Conservation, 2002.
(URL: www.arcbc.org/arcbcweb/publications/mpa.htm)
Background facts
| Biogeographic | : East Asian Seas – I (UC), III (16,17) and IV (UC) |
| Division | |
| Coastline | : 18,000 km to 22,540 km (World Resources Institute 1994) |
| Population | : 75,579,487 (National Statistics Office website, 2000) |
| Population density | : c. 234/km2; coastal (w/in 60 km of coast) pop. density 174/km2 |
| (Bryant et al. 1998) | |
| Land area | : 299,000 km2 |
| Shelf to 200m depth | : 178,400 km2 to 184,600 km2 |
| EEZ | : 1,786,000 km2 to 2.2 M km2 |
| Est. Coral Reef Area | : 13,000 km2 (Bryant et al. 1998), 24,000 km2 |
| (Gomez et al. 1994) to 27,000 km2 (White and Cruz-Trinidad 1998) | |
| Est. Mangrove Area | : 1,380 km2 |
| (White and De Leon 1996, cited in White and Cruz-Trinidad 1998); 1,607 km2 (Spalding et al. 1997) | |
| No. of MPAs | : >500 |
| Total Area of MPAs | : unknown |
Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines
List of marine protected areas (table)
Reefs at risk
