El Nido Marine Reserve Project (Debt-for-Nature Swap Program: Third Tranche)

The El Nido Marine Reserve (ENMR) is a critical zone of the Palawan Biosphere Reserve and located within the territorial jurisdiction of the municipality of El Nido, Palawan. As recipient of the Debt-for-Nature Swap Program-Third Tranche (DFNS-3), the ENMR had made significant achievements on marine and forests protection. The ENMR Project has created a niche in the arena of protection and continued support this initial achievement should be complemented with continued support to meet the regular functioning of the project in its technical, organizational and financial stability. The project, as a whole, is geared towards sustainable protected area management in its own unique way, and this requires sustaining gains which the project has worked for.