Kent Carpenter spent half a century counting the life of Philippine reefs

Mongabay
Jul 14, 2026, 9:28 am271 ptsTop
By some accounts, in the Philippine reefs of the 1970s, large groupers appeared every 50 feet or so. Some seemed as large as Volkswagen Beetles. Around them were snappers, fusiliers, wrasses, turtles, and corals, along with fish whose identities were still uncertain. A young biologist could spend his days…

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