OSLOB, Philippines: The effortless glide of the whale shark is a spectacular sight. Close to the surface of the water, the spotted skin of each passing giant shimmers in the refracting sunlight. A ...

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Eight years ago most of the world had never heard of the sleepy fishing village of Oslob in the Philippines. But in 2011 a group of local fisherman came up with an idea that would ultimately put their ...

Professor Lawrence Liao, our Cebuano scholar who teaches Biology and Environmental Science at Hiroshima University in Japan, shared a petition for signature campaign to stop feeding the whale sharks ...

The collaborative research among The University of Hong Kong (HKU), the University of Guam (UoG), and the Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines (LAMAVE) shows that whale shark ...

There's only one thing I can tell you about the town of Oslob in the Philippines: don't go. There is a tendency amongst travel bloggers to over romanticise, but I wouldn't want to lie to you. I'm ...

MANILA, Philippines — At least 95 percent of endangered whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) observed in Oslob, Cebu province, since 2012 have been injured and scarred due to activities linked to wildlife ...

MANILA, Philippines — National Geographic has cited Oslob in Cebu for its shark tourism industry, describing it as a booming business despite its effects on wildlife still being debated on. “In the ...

Dusit International, one of Thailand’s leading hotel and property development companies, and Grand Land Inc., a subsidiary of the Gaisano Grand Group of Companies and a trusted name in Philippine real ...

Whale shark tourism in Tan-awan, Oslob, Philippines has led to degradation of the local coral reef ecosystem. The collaborative research among The University of Hong Kong (HKU), the University of Guam ...