Great Santa Cruz Island

Great Santa Cruz Island is a island in Zamboanga City. The island, found 4 kilometers south of downtown at the Santa Cruz Bank in the Basilan Strait, brags the main pink sand shoreline in the Philippines. The shade of the sand originates from the pummeled red organ pipe coral from ages of surf disintegration blended with the white sand. The island began to end up well known since the 1970s and mid 1980s when it was frequented by German, Japanese and Italian travelers.

As of late, there's an upsurge of sightseers that has been recorded because of its rising prevalence as one of a bunch of Pink Sand Beaches in the World and is the just a single in Asia. In 2017, it was perceived by National Geographic as one of the 21 Best Beaches in the World. The Great Santa Cruz Island together with Little Santa Cruz Island are ensured zones in Philippines. Mutually called the Great and Little Sta. Cruz Islands Protected Landscape and Seascape, it was announced all things considered on April 23, 2000 with the marking of Proclamation No. 271.

The recreation center has an aggregate region of 1,877 hectares. Ongoing illicit coral reef mining has obliterated a large portion of Great Santa Cruz Island's immense coral reef populace leaving the previous bright corals as dead skeletal reefs. The city administration of Zamboanga is intending to enhance the island for the safeguarding, insurance, preservation and recovery of the island's biological system.