PHL named migratory-species champion for effort to save ‘butanding’
The Philippines’s effort and initiative to protect and conserve the whale shark, locally called butanding, scientifically named Rhincodon typus, since the 1990s, has paid off.
Last updated on 26 October 2017
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Media Watch
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Country:
Philippines
Region:
South-East Asia
Species:
Rhincodon typus
Species group:
Fish
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