This summer I am in the Philippines, mostly on the island of Cebu. The Philippines has hundreds of small, community-based marine reserves. I’m studying how people are involved in the development and implementation of reserves and other fishery management measures. Basically, I’ll be talking to a lot of people about the ocean.
Perfect.
New things I bought for the trip: a backpack, a regulator to complete my SCUBA gear, and a moleskine to write it all down.
Cebu is in the Central Visayas region:
And the island of Cebu is long and narrow (what’s with me and long, narrow, tropical islands?). I’ll be mostly in Cebu City (middle of the east coast) or in the smaller towns along the southeast coast:
