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On November 24, 2025, Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) was formally recognized as a National Kabalikat Awardee by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for its exemplary and sustained contribution to the advancement of Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the Philippines.

When El Nido was hit directly by Typhoon Tino on November 5, the municipality bore the brunt of the storm’s destructive path. Strong winds and heavy rains left widespread damage not only in El Nido but also in nearby municipalities, including Linapacan and Taytay.

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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As part of our livelihood skills training program, around 70 tour guides in Coron and El Nido, Palawan successfully completed their Level 2 Tour-Guiding Accreditation in partnership with the Department of Tourism – MIMAROPA and the Municipal Tourism Offices of Coron and El Nido. Conducted on August 11–17 and August 25–31, 2025, the training enhanced participants’ competencies in professional guiding, safety standards, environmental stewardship, and visitor engagement.

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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).

Linapacan, Palawan-- The municipal local government of Linapacan, Department of Energy (DOE), Prime Energy Resources Development BV (PERD) and Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI) inaugurated and turned-over yesterday, June 3, 2025, a community solar micro-grid system on Barangonan Island with annual energy production capacity of more than 67,000kwh for 100+ households.

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.

El Nido, Palawan—Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) an partners kicked-off the Environmental Youth Action Camps (EYAC) for the year 2025 in El Nido where some 60 youths from the municipalities of Linapacan and El Nido converged to learn basic ecology, biodiversity, conservation, environmental legal framework and threats to natural resources.

THE YEAR 2024 opened with several of our conservation sites in south Oriental Mindoro reaping bountiful harvest on their shorelines with coastal residents literally picking juvenile sardines off shallow seagrass beds, loading them by the sack-loads. Such is the result of fruitful conservation partnerships from grassroots to the provincial level, through multi-faceted conservation strategies, backed on-site by relevant national agencies.

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Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro-- Malampaya Foundation Inc (MFI) and its three (3) conservation-partner sites barangays Ranzo, Banilad and Pili in the municipality of Pinamalayan (Oriental Mindoro) renewed Conservation Agreements (CA's) yesterday, February 18, 2025. The communities of Ranzo and Banilad have been MFI's conservation partners since 2013, while Pili, since 2016.

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Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro--Conservation-partners of barangay Ranzo (Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro) inaugurated yesterday, February 18, 2025, the community's rehabilitated water system, easing water supply problems for more than 250 households who have been resorting to manual fetching of water, many, until late at night.

Batangas City, Batangas—The Provincial Government of Batangas and Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) formalized on December 6, 2024 its long-standing partnership and cooperation on marine conservation efforts in the province since 2013.