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Adopt-A-Shell launched by WPU, MFI

Western Philippines University (WPU) and Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) recently launched Adopt-A-Shell, a fundraising scheme to help bring back endangered and threatened shell species to reefs in core zones of effectively-managed marine protected areas.

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In 2002, the Malampaya Deepwater Gas to Power project was awarded the World Summit Business Award for Sustainable Development Partnership at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The accolade was endowed by the United Nations Environmental Program and the International Chamber of Commerce in recognition of Malampaya’s careful balance of the social, environmental and economic components in the course of development.

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CONSERVATION AGREEMENTS IN 11 NORTH PALAWAN COMMUNITIES RENEWED

June 5, 2025
Environmental
Marine life
Projects

El Nido, Palawan-- Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI) renewed yesterday, June 4, 2025, conservation agreements with eleven (11) partner communities in the municipalities of Taytay, El Nido and Linapacan to continue marine biodiversity conservation partnership grassroots work that started as far back as 2013-2016 in the different areas, including support to two National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) sites: the Malampaya Sound Protected Landscape and Seascape (MSPLS) and the El Nido Managed Resource Protected Area (ENMRPA).

FLOATING MARINE PROTECTED AREA (MPA) STATION BOOSTS TOURISM, MPA ENFORCEMENT

June 4, 2025
Marine life
Environmental
Projects

El Nido, Palawan-- Conservation partners and benefactors converged yesterday, June 3, 2025, at the charming Teneguiban floating MPA station in El Nido that is a tourist destination by day and an enforcement station at night for bantay dagats built jointly by Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI) and conservation partner Samahan ng Maliliit na Mangingisda ng Barangay Teneguiban (SMMBT) with support from the barangay local government unit (LGU).

COMMUNITY SOLAR MICRO-GRID BRINGS LIGHT TO OFF-GRID LINAPACAN ISLAND

June 4, 2025
Environmental
Projects

Linapacan, Palawan-- The municipal local government of Linapacan, Department of Energy (DOE), Prime Energy Resources Development BV (PERD) and Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI) inaugurated and turned-over yesterday, June 3, 2025, a community solar micro-grid system on Barangonan Island with annual energy production capacity of more than 67,000kwh for 100+ households.

Upgraded El Nido Community Water System Turned Over

June 3, 2025
Marine life
Environmental

El Nido, Palawan--Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI), Prime Energy Resources Development BV (PERD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) formally turned-over a rehabilitated level 2 water system at MFI's conservation-partner community Sitio Diapila, Bgy Teneguiban in El Nido, Palawan on June 3, 2025. The turn-over was lead by DOE Director Nenito Jariel, PERD President Donnabelle Cruz and MFI Chairman and President Jose Emmanuel Caral.

Environmental Youth Action Camps for 2025 Kicked off in El Nido

May 4, 2025
Environmental

El Nido, Palawan—Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) an partners kicked-off the Environmental Youth Action Camps (EYAC) for the year 2025 in El Nido where some 60 youths from the municipalities of Linapacan and El Nido converged to learn basic ecology, biodiversity, conservation, environmental legal framework and threats to natural resources.

2024 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT

March 13, 2025
Reports
Projects

THE YEAR 2024 opened with several of our conservation sites in south Oriental Mindoro reaping bountiful harvest on their shorelines with coastal residents literally picking juvenile sardines off shallow seagrass beds, loading them by the sack-loads. Such is the result of fruitful conservation partnerships from grassroots to the provincial level, through multi-faceted conservation strategies, backed on-site by relevant national agencies.

Conservation Agreements in Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro Renewed

February 19, 2025
Marine life
Projects
Events

Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro-- Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI) and its three (3) conservation-partner sites barangays Ranzo, Banilad and Pili in the municipality of Pinamalayan (Oriental Mindoro) renewed Conservation Agreements (CA's) yesterday, February 18, 2025. The communities of Ranzo and Banilad have been MFI's conservation partners since 2013, while Pili, since 2016.

Community Water System in Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro Inaugurated

February 19, 2025
Marine life
Projects

Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro--Conservation-partners of barangay Ranzo (Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro) inaugurated yesterday, February 18, 2025, the community's rehabilitated water system, easing water supply problems for more than 250 households who have been resorting to manual fetching of water, many, until late at night.

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