Most Filipino divers have become conservation conscious, often providing voluntary labor for conservation work and the professionalism of the dive operators has improved immensely. The better ones are staffed by enthusiastic divers who have aggressively sought new locations and worked out the local tide tables to ensure that they dive good sites at optimum times. The net result is a visible improvement all round. Most reefs around shore-based resorts have not seen any destructive fishing for several years, and though it still occurs in some remote areas it is on the decrease. The best news is that, in warm waters with strong currents, soft corals and Acropora stony corals grow much faster than used to be thought.
Many reefs are visibly regenerating.
Divers from from around the world have been coming back regularly over the last few years. It will not be long before the rest of the world's divers join them.