Skip to the content
VERA Files banner logoVERA Files
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • Podcast
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • THE ICC PROBE Duterte’s Drug War
      • ICC-related resources
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • Podcast
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • THE ICC PROBE Duterte’s Drug War
      • ICC-related resources
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt

Tag: whale shark

  • Categories Editor's Pick News

    Diminishing Catch in Overfished Bohol Waters

    By Procopio Resabal Jr.  |  Sep 14, 2022 9:45 AM

    The Bohol Sea is an important marine heritage site and one of the country’s richest fishing grounds, but overfishing has led to a diminishing catch.

    Bohol, Bohol Sea, diminishing catch, fisher-folk, Fisheries, fishing, ocean governance, Overfishing, whale shark

  • Categories Banner Top Stories

    The downside of success: Too many tourists in Donsol

    Jan 31, 2012 12:03 PM

    By AMER R. AMOR
    Fourteen years after the discovery of a large pod of whale sharks or butanding in Donsol, Sorsogon, people around the world continue to troop to this small fishing town in southern Luzon to swim with the whale sharks from December until May.

    butanding, donsol, oslob, whale shark

  • Categories Top Stories

    Lessons from Donsol: What other towns can learn about whale sharks

    Jan 30, 2012 6:11 AM

    By AMER R. AMOR
    It was an image Butanding Interaction Officer (BIO) Allan Amanse swears he will remember for the rest of his life. A 28-year-old fisherman had joined him swim with a whale shark, the world’s largest fish, off the waters of Pamilacan Island in Bohol. The fisherman saw how the whale shark, popularly called butanding, glided gently beside Amanse and marveled at the fascinating bond between them. The fisherman, recalling how he would join his father hunt for whale sharks when he was only seven, wept upon realizing there is a better way of coexisting with the gentle giants of the deep.

    butanding, donsol, oslob, whale shark

Network Memberships

VERA Files IFCN Badge
VERA Files Meta Third-Party Fact Checking Badge
GIJN Member
  • About
  • Privacy Policy

Be relevant. Subscribe to the VERA Files newsletter.

* indicates required


  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt
  • Viber

© 2023 VERA Files

Privacy Policy

  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Reddit
  • Save to your Google bookmark
  • Save to Pocket