Filipino scientists led by Jonathan Anticamara and Fernando Siringan find extensive coral damage in Escoda Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.
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00:00Filipino scientists led by Jonathan Anticamara and Fernando Siringan find extensive coral damage in Escoda Shoal in the West Philippine Sea
00:09Anticamara, a scientist at the University of the Philippines, says the extent of coral damage in Escoda Shoal is tantamount to a, quote, ecological disaster
00:18The scientists say they found extensive coral bleaching with almost 100 percent of the corals dead across all areas they dived in
00:25The scientists surveyed three sites, two of them sandbars, last June 4 and 5
00:30Siringan says the damage is mainly due to anomalous warming of the waters in the West Philippine Sea the past weeks, adding it is part of a global anomaly
00:39These findings come after an expedition in the Keys of Pagasa last March also led by Anticamara
00:45He concluded then, damage had been happening for several years