BACOLOD CITY – A body of an endangered whale shark, locally known as a butanding, was found trapped in a fish coral one kilometer from the shoreline of Barangay Zone 1A in Pulupandan town, Negros ...

DONSOL, Sorsogon — After a light breakfast, we went to the Butanding (the local term for whale shark) Registration Office to sign up and watch a video on the do’s and don’ts of interacting with these ...

Butanding is known in English as whale shark, but is it more of a whale or a shark? As reported by Kuya Kim on “24 Oras” Friday, the butanding is not a whale (balyena), but instead is a kind of shark ...

After Mayon, I went on to Donsol with Benjamin, my 12-year-old son. I really wanted him to see a butanding because the last time I was with my two kids we were at sea for five hours — and we very ...

TABACO CITY—Local officials have taken measures to protect seven “butanding” or whale sharks that are in the waters about 150 meters from this city’s shore for over a week now. They had banned fishing ...

Spotting them is a high like no other. Now a shipping giant and the World Wildlife Fund are turning the experience into a sustainable move for the environment A diving enthusiast on our boat taught us ...

For years, Donsol in the province of Sorsogon has been the seasonal home of the butanding —whale sharks, gentle giants that feed only on plankton, fish eggs, and small fish. But all that is changing, ...

SORSOGON CITY, Sorsogon (PIA) — Frequent sightings of whale sharks in the coastal town of Donsol in Sorsogon mark the start of the season for people to interact with the world’s largest fish.

THE Philippines’s effort and initiative to protect and conserve the whale shark, locally called butanding, scientifically named Rhincodon typus, since the 1990s, has paid off. The Philippines is again ...

There’s bad news for the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), an iconic marine animal frequently spotted in Philippine waters and known locally as butanding. Now listed as “endangered” on the International ...

THE latest Red List assessment of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has put the whale shark and two other species at an increasing risk of extinction. While whale sharks and ...