PH a living lab in the quest to breed ‘super corals’

BOLINAO, PANGASINAN, Philippines — Three years ago, the emerald waters off Quezon Island—one of the 124 islets that make up the famed Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos City—concealed a vast wasteland of dead corals. The seabed was basically all rubble, recalled marine scientist Dexter dela Cruz. Very few coral had survived the combined effects