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According to Ken A. Preibe, “The advanced art of stop-motion animation” (2011), stop-motion animation is in the hands of the people.As a craft, the act of animating in stop-motion requires a person toliterally place a puppet in their hands and bring it to life, frame by frame.
According to (Endangered Species International [ESI],2011) Dynamite fishing (homemade bomb) is set off under water to kill fish for easy collection. Dynamite fishing has contributed to massive destruction of Southeast Asian coral reefs over the past 20 years. Large blasted areas are very slow to recover because corals have difficulty establishing on loose or sandy substrate. In southern Philippines, between Malaysia (Borneo) and Philippines (Palawan) illegal dynamite fishing is still a common practice.
The area between Borneo and Palawan Island are the target of ESI where the dynamite fishing is common. The ESI president observed during his field in 2008
“Finding dynamited fish in local markets is unfortunately quite common.”
As stated in endangeredspeciesinternational.org (2011).
Overall, the regulatory situation in the Philippines is certainly bad, but there are rays of hope. For starters, the collection and export of corals is banned in the Philippines. To manage aquarium fishing operations certain regions/communities/cooperatives have taken matters into their own hands and have organized around some level of protection. However, free access laws that allow outsiders, and their destructive practices access to local waters continually threaten the efficacy of these arrangements.
In the Philippines, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) now require local communities to establish and enforce local fishery management plans (“Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Councils, [FARM Cs]”). With this legal mechanism in place it is now possible for communities to protect their reef resources and establish proper