Experts say proposed landing site of Davao-Samal bridge will destroy coral reef, marine life
– The multi-billion peso 3.98-kilometer Davao City-Island Garden City of Samal connector project would cause an “irreparable, irremediable, and incalculable damage” on the corals and other marine life in the Paradise Reef, marine experts said.
Dr. Filipina Sotto, former head of the marine biology department of the University of San Carlos and Philippine Commission on Sports Scuba Diving commissioner recently led a team of marine biologists who conducted a marine science study on the reef. Bridgeport is a 12-hectare township project of Damosa Land Inc., owned by the family of former Davao del Norte 2 District Representative Antonio “Tony Boy” Floirendo Jr., a close political ally of President Duterte.
The Rodriguez family, which owns the Paradise Island Park and Beach Resort and Costa Marina Beach Resort, also offered to donate the beach front of El Paril Beach as the “landing site” of the bridge project just to preserve the Paradise Reef.
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