Verde Island Passage Centre Of World's Marine Biodiversity

Verde Island Passage south of Manila has been described as the "centre of the centre" of the world's marine biodiversity in a joint study by America's Smithsonian Institute. Beneath the turquoise waves that funnel nutrients from the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea are spectacular reef formations of more than 300 species of coral and underwater rock canyons that host nearly 60 percent of the world's known shorefish species...