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THE CORAL TRIANGLE: HEARST BIODIVERSITY EXPEDITION 
Photo 3a. Anudibranch mollusk, albratossae, drawn by Japanese illustrator Kumataro Ito in 1907-1910. 
Photo 3b. The living animal, photographed by Terrenee Gosliner during the Aeademy’s Philippines expedition in 2011. 
ingfiil to the community. She offered to bring local Filipino leaders together to help with the proj¬ 
ect and assured us they would be excited to have Filipino voices included. A few weeks later we 
had the first meeting of what was originally called the Filipino Focus Group, and which later 
became the REEF group (Reaching out through Environmental Education to Filipinos). We met 
some 20 Bay Area Filipino leaders, including Mary Lou Salcedo, a board member of Pusod, an 
environmental organization with offices in the Bay Area and in Lipa, Batangas Province, Philip¬ 
pines. Pusod has worked to promote conservation in Batangas since its founding in 1996. With 
Mary Lou Salcedo and her daughter Malou Babilonia, we explored additional ways we could col¬ 
laborate beyond the reef exhibit, to enhance community outreach and conservation in the Batangas 
