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MANILA, Philippines — National Geographic has cited Oslob in Cebu for its shark tourism industry, describing it as a booming business despite its effects on wildlife still being debated on.

the story is different for provisioned whale sharks in Oslob. As located in the Philippines, Oslob is currently the world’s largest noncaptive provisioned whale shark tourism destination ...

Welcome to Oslob, home of the whale shark selfie. In this town, near the southern tip of Cebu Island in the Philippines, whale sharks are a big draw. Tourism is booming for people who want to ...

About 1,500 visitors yesterday swarmed the coast of barangay Tan-awan, Oslob town eager to get into bancas to see whale sharks up close. The Easter Sunday surge was double the size of the usual ...

OSLOB, Philippines: The effortless glide of the whale shark is a spectacular sight. Close to the surface of the water, the spotted skin of each passing giant shimmers in the refracting sunlight.

In Australia, shark diving tourism is a growing industry estimated to be worth more than $25.5 million annually to the country's regional economy. Since it began in 2011, Oslob’s whale shark ...

MANILA, Philippines — A sustainable model for shark tourism needs to be implemented in Tan-awan, Oslob in Cebu as it is leading to the degradation of the local coral reef ecosystem,a ...

Oslob is home to one of the world's largest whale shark (Rhincodon typus) tourism sites, and operators use 150kg to 400kg of food to attract the impressive animals to the picturesque location.

MANILA, Philippines — At least 95 percent of endangered whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) observed in Oslob, Cebu province, since 2012 have been injured and scarred due to activities linked to ...

More recently, however, whale sharks (called “butanding” in Filipino) have begun to aggregate around Oslob in Cebu province and the situation there is a bit different. Most importantly, the Oslob ...