Verde Passage 'highest Marine Priority Area On Earth'

A Washington-based environmental group, whose partners include major US companies, considers the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas as probably "the highest marine priority area on Earth," according to the group's co-founder. Peter Seligmann, chair and CEO of Conservation International, gave this assessment as he welcomed the government's recent calls to protect the Verde Island Passage, a teeming marine ecosystem within the Philippine side of the Sulu-Sulawesi waters that are also shared by Malaysia and Indonesia...