News Headline
A Philippine community that once ate giant clams now works to protect them
Source
Mongabay.com
Publication Date
2019-07-31
SAMAL ISLAND, Philippines — Sixty-five-year-old Ruby Gutierrez wakes up at exactly six in the morning, and after preparing breakfast for four grandchildren (she has 13) heads off to the Adecor giant clam nursery, a community-based ecotourism effort on the island of Samal, in the southern Philippine region of Davao, that offers taklobo (giant clam) tours.