Alegre Beach Resort Sports and Security Personnel Trained to Survey Their Coral Reefs

 One of the top five star hotels and resorts in Cebu, the Alegre Beach Resort, welcomed Reef Check in October 23 to 24, 2004. The resort’s housereef is one of their major tourist attraction, and the management is committed to having their personnel trained in Reef Check. Marine Biologist Geraldine Sola, the resorts marine consultant and volunteer regional coordinator of Reef Check in the Philippines trained during the Southeast Asian Reef Check Trainers Training, assisted in the conduct the reef monitoring training to the sports and security personnel of the resort. Most of the 16 participants trained in Reef Check were recreational divers under the supervision of Marcelino Cruz III of Aqua Sports. The survey continued on December 18, 2004. Most of the indicator fish species were present and with a mean hard coral cover of 58% (click here to view full report *.pdf). One of the outputs of the survey was the recognition of an outbreak of Crown-of-thorns starfish the staff then planned out their activities towards conducting a series of crown-of-thorns collection activities.