The park contains roughly 10,000 hectares of coral reef, lying at the heart of the Coral Triangle – the global centre of marine biodiversity.
Scientists have been visiting these reefs since the 1980s, and their research has shown that Tubbataha is home to no less than:
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700 species of fish
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360 species of corals (about half of all coral species in the world)
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11 species of sharks and rays
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13 species of dolphins & whales
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100 species of birds
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Hawksbill & Green sea turtles.
– National Geographic, November 2017