In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Malampaya Foundation, Inc. (MFI) recognized outstanding partners and beneficiaries through its special 20X20 Awards, highlighting excellence in marine conservation, community protection, sustainable enterprise, and education.

Three conservation partner sites of the Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) earned national recognition at the 2025 Para El Mar Awards, securing 1st and 2nd place in the Locally-Managed Marine Protected Area (MPA) category and a special citation for enforcement excellence.

Five (5) of the nine (9) finalists in this year’s Para El Mar Awards – Locally-Managed Marine Protected Area Category are conservation partner sites that we have supported since 2013.

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More than 120 youths from different coastal municipalities of Oriental Mindoro were educated and enjoined in this year’s Environmental Youth Action Camp (EYAC) held annually by Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) and marine conservation partners provincial government agriculture office, municipal governments, and the provincial Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

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Active community bantay dagats (volunteer sea rangers) in conservation-partner sites of Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) in north Palawan, Oriental Mindoro and Batangas city received their rice sacks as part of their incentives in playing a key role in protecting marine protected areas (MPAs)/marine management zones of their communities.

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El Nido, Palawan-- Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI) renewed yesterday, June 4, 2025, conservation agreements with eleven (11) partner communities in the municipalities of Taytay, El Nido and Linapacan to continue marine biodiversity conservation partnership grassroots work that started as far back as 2013-2016 in the different areas, including support to two National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) sites: the Malampaya Sound Protected Landscape and Seascape (MSPLS) and the El Nido Managed Resource Protected Area (ENMRPA).

El Nido, Palawan-- Conservation partners and benefactors converged yesterday, June 3, 2025, at the charming Teneguiban floating MPA station in El Nido that is a tourist destination by day and an enforcement station at night for bantay dagats built jointly by Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI) and conservation partner Samahan ng Maliliit na Mangingisda ng Barangay Teneguiban (SMMBT) with support from the barangay local government unit (LGU).

El Nido, Palawan--Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI), Prime Energy Resources Development BV (PERD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) formally turned-over a rehabilitated level 2 water system at MFI's conservation-partner community Sitio Diapila, Bgy Teneguiban in El Nido, Palawan on June 3, 2025. The turn-over was lead by DOE Director Nenito Jariel, PERD President Donnabelle Cruz and MFI Chairman and President Jose Emmanuel Caral.