Fins and Leaves is a non-profit organization that aims to contribute to safeguarding the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots and support the people that depend on them for their survival.

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Acres of virgin rainforest and tribal land protected in the Philippines
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Endangered Almaciga trees raised from seed and reforested
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Hatchery bred Grouper juveniles distributed to small-scale farmers

It is our goal to safeguarding the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots and support the people that depend on them for their survival. We try to achieve this through inclusive development projects that focus on improved livelihoods, conservation and education, whereby the geographical focus lies on areas rich in rainforest habitats, mangroves, and coral reefs.

By now, we have expanded our operations with a more international approach, and besides working in the Philippines, new projects are being supported and developed in Madagascar and Suriname.

The organization was founded in 2008 carrying out projects in the Philippines, with the mission to contribute to the creation of a sustainable future for the island province of Palawan, through the execution of projects that are practical, environmental friendly and long lasting.

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Protocol development for the improved hatchery production of Tiger grouper Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (Forsskål, 1775) in Palawan, Philippines.

2021 – Palawan Scientist

 

Together with Western Philippines University (WPU) we recently (2021) published our USAID funded study on Protocol development for the improved hatchery production of Tiger grouper Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (Forsskål, 1775) in Palawan, Philippines.
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11 new plant species discovered in the Philippines in 2020.

December 2020 – Monthly Agriculture

 

The Philippines has long been known as a center of biodiversity. 11 new plant discoveries in the country were published in international scientific journals in 2020, adding to the extensive list of flora endemic to its shores.
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Notes on the forest frogs of Cleopatra’s Needle Mountain Range, with special reference to the Palawan Toadlet.

August 2017 – Journal of Natural History – National Museum of the Philippines

 

Cleopatra is Needle Mountain Range, in northern Palawan, holds some of the last naturally forested habitat, supporting a significant number of locally endemic amphibians.
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The Philippines declares more than 100,000 acres as critical habitat.

August 2017 – Mongabay

 

Palawan, dubbed the last frontier because of the large expanse of old, intact forests it
is home to, is one of the most biodiverse regions in the Philippines.
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