History:

1994: The flagship program of the PRRCFI is the Philippine Reef and Rainforest Project.  This project was collaborated with the foundation’s foreign partners, WLT and CCC, and was initiated the purchase of Danjugan Island. The scientific research/surveys provided scientific data for candidate marine protected areas initially in southern Negros Occidental.

1996: PRRCFI was elected Chair for the committee of Research and Development for the Southern Negros Coastal Development Program*, vice-Chair for Education, member of Committees for Restoration and Livelihood.

1997: The foundation’s first grant (with CCC), Southern Negros Coastal Development Program-Coastal Resource Assessment Project (SNCDP-CRAP), from the British AUSPB, provided for a small research speedboat that was utilized for marine research and survey of the coastal zones of Brgy. Bulata, the city of Sipalay, and the municipality of Hinobaan.  The results of the scientific survey provide data for candidate marine protected areas of southern Negros Occidental.

That same year, PRRCFI conducted marine research in Tay Tay Bay, Palawan. The Tay Tay Bay Conservation Project, a collaborative project with CCC and the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD).  The project was based in Cagdanao Island and intended to provide scientific data for candidate marine protected areas in the municipality of Tay Tay, Palawan.  The project was suspended in 2001 due to the Abu Sayyaf problem.

1998: Southern Negros Coastal Development Program-Poverty Alleviation and Conservation Education Project (SNCDP-PACE). Funded by the British DFID, the grant allowed PRRCFI to organize seven (7) peoples’ organizations, the development of the proposed Danjugan Island Marine Reserve and Sanctuaries, the development of the DIMRS Management Board, and the Bantay Dagat Councils of three (3) barangays (Bulata, Elihan, and Inayauan).  The project also provided alternative/complementary livelihood trainings, conservation education, and Coastal Resource Management (CRM) trainings.

2000: The proposed Danjugan Island Marine Reserve and Sanctuaries (DIMRS) was approved by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Negros Occidental in the 9th of February, 2000.  The DIMRS is the first provincial MPA in Negros Occidental and the first privately initiated MPA in the Philippines.  In that same year, the local government of Brgy. Elihan requested PRRCFI to research for a marine sanctuary fronting their barangay.  This process is ongoing.  Candidate MPA sites were submitted to the LGUs of Sipalay and Hinobaan.

2001:  PRRCFI’s current project, the Philippine Sustainable Coastal Communities Project (PSCCP), had reached three (3) coastal communities in various trainings on conservation and livelihood. 
     
On the 25th of January 2001, the DIMRS was voted first place in the 2nd BEST MANAGED REEF AWARDS sponsored by the Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development (PCAMRD), the DENR, the DOST, and the DA.

2003: With the termination of PSCCP, PRRCFI embarked on the Danjugan Island Nature Tourism Project, a project intended to provide benefits to the coastal communities of its project site and fund sustainability to the foundation.