Apo Reef in 1980. This was followed with the local government of Sablayan declaring the reef a special "Tourism Zone and Marine Reserve" three years later. In 1996, the entire reef was declared a protected natural park by then-president Fidel Ramos. In 2006, the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources submitted the reef to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre for consideration as a World Heritage Site. Following a survey by the local chapter of the World Wide Fund for Nature, fishing within the reef was banned by the Philippine government in September 2007. The
Tiparra Reef Tiparra Reef Tiparra Reef (also spell as Tipara) is a reef located in Spencer Gulf in South Australia about west of the town of Port Hughes. The reef is described as being "a bank of sand, in extent, with depths of less than , that lies in the middle of Tiparra Bay" with a"limestone ledge, long in a N[orth] S[outh] direction and about wide, that just dries, lies on the S[outh] W[est] end of the reef N[orth] W[est] of Cape Elizabeth" (which is the southern headland of Tiparra Bay). The limestone ledge was the site of an operational lighthouse from