‘Declare Boracay protected area’

Environment officials are “eager” to support the proposal to declare this island resort a protected area.
The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office, however, will have to look into the proposal first, said its chief, Ivene Reyes.
The Sangkalikasan Producers Cooperative (SPC) has called for the declaration of the beachfront as a protected area.
But “right now we have no details of the proposal,” said Reyes. “We are eager to cooperate with the municipal government of Malay and SPC to declare the beachfront a protected area.”
SPC’s Jose Rodriguez earlier said Boracay needs to be declared such amid its rapidly growing tourism industry.
“We have observed that a huge area of corals at the beachfront is threatened,” he said. “We can only save the corals if the beachfront is declared a protected area.”/