24 Facts About Angel Alcala

Angel Chua Alcala was a Filipino biologist who was named a National Scientist of the Philippines in 2014.

Angel Alcala was the Chairman of the Board of Advisers at the Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management located in Silliman University.

Angel Alcala published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and books and his biological contributions to the environment and ecosystems have made him a renowned figure of natural sciences in the Philippines.

Angel Alcala was born on March 1,1929, in the municipality of Cauayan, Negros Occidental.

Angel Alcala was raised by a moderately low-income family in the small coastal town of Calling, Philippines.

Angel Alcala worked alongside his father who worked as a fisherman at the nearby agricultural fish ponds.

In 1951, Angel Alcala earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Silliman University.

Angel Alcala then declined acceptance to the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in order to assist his family.

Angel Alcala later attended Stanford University to complete his master's degree after 9 years.

Angel Alcala later became a professor at Silliman University, where he served as president for two consecutive years.

Angel Alcala served as secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources from 1992 to 1995 and chairman of the Commission on Higher Education from 1995 to 1999.

Angel Alcala served as consultant on marine and aquatic projects under the United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, World Bank Global Environment Facility, the Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation, and the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute.

Angel Alcala is accredited with many research accomplishments and improvements regarding environmental management, marine conservation, and discovery of new species.

One of Angel Alcala's works consisted of restoring or preserving areas with predominant wild, large predatory fish populations near a small marine sanctuary at Apo Island in the Philippines.

Angel Alcala's goal was to sustain hospitable conditions in this sanctuary throughout the duration of his research.

Angel Alcala's studies correlated the efforts of protective environmental practices with the effects of either continuing or ceasing those regulations.

Angel Alcala concluded how maximizing conservation and environmental efforts near these coral reefs reduced fishing and stabilized struggling fish species that faced the increased loss of habitat.

Angel Alcala experimented with his teams to conserve coral reefs and other marine resources.

Angel Alcala has worked to protect the lives of giant clams in the Philippines.

Angel Alcala worked alongside Dr Edgardo Gomez to assess the organisms' status in 1983.

Gomez and Angel Alcala retrieved young giant clams from the Solomon Islands to breed back in Bolinao.

In 1959, Angel Alcala earned the Fulbright-Smith Mundt master's fellowship in Stanford University's biology department.

Angel Alcala was previously the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary in the Philippines.

Angel Alcala was married to Naomi and they had 6 children.