Dr. Annadel Cabanban

Dr. Annadel Salvio Cabanban is the Country Manager of Wetlands International Philippines. She is a trained marine biologist with degrees from the University of the Philippines and James Cook University in Australia. She was in the academe for almost 30 years and with non-government organizations for 16 years. She has seined (collected) mangrove fish species in the Philippines and in Townville, Australia and has supervised students in mangrove tree ecology. At Wetlands International Philippines, she managed the To Plant or Not to Plant project on the first year (2023) of implementation.