Sulu-Sulawesi Seascape

Conservation International (CI), through its offices in the Philippines and Indonesia, has embarked on a three-year marine conservation initiative, the Sulu-Sulawesi Seascape (SSS) which involve a broad range of partners that will build a strong foundation for a long-term conservation program to address varied and immediate threats to the biological diversity of the Sulu and Sulawesi Seas spanning territories covered by three independent nations -- Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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The Sulu-Sulawesi Seascape occupies approximately 900,000 km² area that includes the Sulu and Sulawesi Seas, located between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines (De Vantier et al. 2004). This seascape is one of the world's most diverse and productive marine ecosystems -- coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forest – which supports a considerable number of marine species such as sea turtles, marine mammals, elasmobranchs, marine fishes, invertebrates, seaweeds and seagrasses, as well as other less well-known but equally important marine flora and fauna.