page_title: Mabuwaya
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Mabuwaya / Funding and awards / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: juvenile Philippine crocodile
context_page_description: Mabuwaya is a contraction of the Filipino words mabuhay, "welcome" or "long live," and buwaya, "crocodile."
  The Mabuwaya Foundation is an NGO in the Philippines, established in 2003, that is concerned with the conservation of the Philippine crocodile. Currently, its efforts concentrate on educating the people of Luzon, one of the islands of the Philippines where the animal is still found in the wild. Mabuwaya teaches that the crocodile is something of which to be proud, and how unsustainable fishing methods threaten both the animal and its environment.
  Mabuwaya actively working in the municipalities of San Mariano and Divilacan to conserve the remnant wild populations of the Philippine crocodile that survive here in the wild in the Northern Sierra madre Natural Park and its periphery in northern Luzon.
context_section_description: In August 2014 Tess Gatan-Balbas received the Whitley award. This award recognizes the important work Tess and the Mabuwaya team are doing to protect the world's most endangered crocodile.
caption: Vanderploeg (2007) juvenile Philippine crocodile
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