Photo credit: Micaela Trebol

para el mar 2017

Most Outstanding MPA Network Finalist
Southern Negros IMPACTS/BENEFITS
KEY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
• The long coastline of Southern Negros
Coastal Development serves as an important site for larvae
dispersal in the region
Network Establishment and Legal Recognition
• Drafting of MOA or other formal agreement among
participating LGUs;
Management Council
• Applying lessons learned from old • Review and/or approval of a resolution creating the
MPAs to newly formed MPAs Southern Negros Coastal Development Management
Council (SNCDMC) Marine Protected Area (MPA) Network;
Marine Protected Area ISSUES AND THREATS
Municipality of Hinoba-an

• Drafting, finalization and approval of Operational

Protocols / Guidelines for the network.
Sustainable Financing
Network
• Illegal fishing/encroachment
• External fund sourcing;
• Use of active gear • Partnership with private, commercial and business
• Use of superlight enterprises;
Sipalay City • Inclusion of Plan into higher plan like Provincial
• Compressor fishing Physical Framework, and CLUP’s of respective LGU’s.
AREA
• Illegal fishing/encroachment IECs
715.2 hectares • Social Marketing Approach: Production of SM
• Fishing within MPA zones Collaterals; distribution and installation
HABITAT TYPES Municipality of Cauayan • Conduct of small events (e.g. MPA day celebration,
• Illegal fishing/encroachment pulong-pulong, marine camps)
Coral reef, mangrove and seagrass
• Intrusion of commercial fishing vessel Enforcement and Compliance
• Activation of AB-CLET;
ESTABLISHED IN 1996 • Use of active gear
• Seaborne and land-based patrol operations of AB-CLET;
Executive Order No. 20 • Giving regular monitary compensatiion to all MPA guards.
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Strengthen alliance base enforcement Monitoring and Evaluation
MANAGEMENT BODY • Periodic MEAT and SEAT
• Proper alignment of programs among
Southern Negros Coastal Development Management Council • Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring
MPAs in the network
FLORA AND FAUNA
• It is part of the migration path and feeding grounds of tunas and large
pelagic fishes;
• Priority area for conservation of reef fishes, cetaceans (whales, dolphins
and porpoises), elasmobranches (sharks and rays), whale sharks and
marine turtles;
• The coral reefs in Sipalay are typical fringing reefs. There are more than 21
genera of hard corals found in the area;
• For Hinobaan, coral reefs are concentrated in Brgys. Talacagay, Bacuyangan,
Brgy. 1 Poblacion, Pook, Alim, Asia, Bulwangan, Daug, Culipapa and Sangke;
• Cauayan’s reefs harbor 244 species of hard corals, including 20 species
considered rare in the Philippines;
• Commercially important marine invertebrates such as giant clams (Tridacna Photo credit: Gerry Ledesma
crocea,T. squamosa, and Hippopus hippopus) are observed in the reefs;
• Other commercially important invertebrates observed are abalone (Haliotis
asinine) and spiny lobster (Panulirus spp.). The endangered coconut crab Contact this MPA network through:
(Birgus latro) still frequent the island. Several sites across the three LGUs
are known nesting sites of the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) and green Roberto D. Tabujara
Executive Director
sea (Chelonia mydas) turtles. Southern Negros Coastal Development Management Council
Marine Protected Area Network
bobbie_tab20@yahoo.com
09187192132