BATANGAS’ PRIDE. Spotted by professional diving instructor Marivic Maramot are these corals at Barangay San An-tonio in Isla Verde, Batangas City. The island is at the heart of the Verde Island Passage, the world’s acclaimed center of the center of the marine biodiversity. The corals have flourishly recovered from degradation brought by unsound fishing practices that include use of dynamites cyanides few decades back.|Photo courtesy of Marivic Maramot
