Browsing Aquatic News Index by Subject "Man-induced effects"
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1 M species risk extinction due to humns - draft UN report
(Manila Bulletin,April 27, 2019 , on page 4)Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft UN report obtained by Agence France-Presse that painstakingly catalogues how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which ... -
10,000 Manila Bay establishments inspected — DENR
(The Philippine Star,January 3, 2020 , on page 8)lose to 10,000 commercial establishments around Manila Bay have been inspected since the bay’s rehabilitation program was launched a year ago, according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The ... -
31 LGUs sign petition banning single-use plastic
(The Manila Times,November 23, 2020 , on page C5)A petition for a nationwide ban on the use of single-use plastic has been signed by 31 coastal local government units (LGUs). Faced with twin problems of massive flooding and uncontrollable material waste, LGUs in the ... -
Aboitiz Cleanergy Park: Promoting biodiversity conservation
(SunStar Philippines,June 12, 2020 , on page 6-7)The World Environment Month is commemorated every June, with the World Environment Day on June 5th. As the world celebrates this, it is important to reflect on the many ways humans impact the planet and its flora and fauna. ... -
About the Boracay closure
(The Daily Guardian,April 30, 2018 , on page 7)The famous island, one of the world’s top destinations for relaxation, has just closed for environmental issues that president Duterte highlighted a while ago. The coliform level in one of its barangays has reached an ... -
Activists, UN celebrate pope's call to arms on climate change
(Malaya,June 19, 2015 , on page B4-B5)Pope Francis’ appeal to save the planet won praise from climate change activists, scientists, and the United Nations on Thursday as a moral imperative to governments to make 2015 a turning point in efforts to slow global ... -
Adhesives work wonders for coral repair
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,December 18, 2016 , on page A8)Carrying special adhesives, 30 scuba divers plunged 20 feet deep underwater at the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) here on Dec. 13 to transplant coral fragments, part of a process needed to revive the park’s degenerating ... -
Again, on solid waste management
(Malaya,July 23, 2018 , on page B5)Following the habagat for Southwest monsoon rains that flooded many parts of Metro Manila this week, a team from the group Basura Patrol went to the Manila Bay area and found plastic bags, straws, and other disposables, ... -
Aid for farming, fishing families in Cotabato
(Panay News,February 17, 2017 , on page 12)For the past four decades, the lives and livelihood of farmers and fisherfolks in some areas of Mindanao have been affected by recurrent displacement as a result of sporadic armed clashes. Through a $3-million grant from ... -
Animals, crops, and people all suffer amid Europe's heatwave
(Manila Bulletin,August 2, 2018 , on page B-8)The heatwave gripping large stretches of Europe has already been blamed for deadly forest fires and crop failures. Now freshwater fish could be its next victims. Rivers like the Rhine and the Elbe have soaked up so much ... -
Baguio City after Boracay
(Manila Bulletin,January 10, 2019 , on page 6)The timely intervention of President Rodrigo Duterte in closing Boracay for rehabilitation is to be applauded, given the political, and the moral will, to save the pristine beaches and bucolic lifestyle of the world-famous ... -
Bali declares 'garbage emergency' amid sea of waste
(The Manila Times,December 29, 2017 , on page B5)Bali’s palm-fringed Kuta beach has long been a favorite with tourists seeking sun and surf, but nowadays its golden shoreline is disappearing under a mountain of garbage. Plastic straws and food packaging are strewn between ... -
The battle for marine and human sustainability
(Manila Standard,January 9, 2014 , on page C3)The Coral Triangle lies deep in the volcanic Indo-Pacific region, where two great oceans merge, and is bordered in the north by the Philippines, the west by Indonesia and Malaysia and the east by the Solomon Islands. It ... -
Battle of Manila Bay to be won in 7 years - DENR
(Manila Bulletin,January 29, 2019 , on page 1-3)The rehabilitation of Manila Bay will be in three phases in the next seven years, which means this will go beyond the term of President Duterte who vowed to make the bay as clean as the world-famous Boracay island. Environment ... -
The bay, the river, the lake: abandoned and dying
(The Manila Times,August 3, 2018 , on page A1-A8)Manila Bae was once the “most beautiful and safely- situated bay in the world.” The Manila South Harbor in its fringes, which spans six provinces (Bataan, Pampanga, Bulacan, Metro Manila, and Cavite), was considered the ... -
Boracay corals dying fast, says group
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,March 21, 2015 , on page A13)After concerns have been raised about the deteriorating water quality at a portion of the pristine White Beach of the island in Malay, Aklan province, a coral reef rehabilitation group has now reported mass dying of corals. ... -
Boracay free of starfish, say marine scientists
(Today,January 12, 2000 , on page 4)The world-famous long stretch of white beach in Boracay is free from the spread of crow-of-thorns starfish after all. Fearing that an outbreak of the dreaded starfish (Acanthaster planci) on its reef ecosystem may constitute ... -
Boracay placed under state of calamity
(Malaya,April 27, 2018 , on page B1-B6)President Duterte yesterday placed all three barangays in Boracay Island under a under a state of calamity and said the closure of the island-resort, which started yesterday, will be up to October 25 this year. The declaration ... -
Boracay rehab may go beyond 6 months
(The Philippine Star,May 26, 2018 , on page 1-2)The closure of Boracay might be extended as rehabilitation efforts on the island may not be completed within six months, Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said yesterday. Cimatu said more time might be needed to rehabilitate ... -
Boracay state of calamity declared this week
(Manila Bulletin,April 19, 2018 , on page 7)A state of calamity will be declared Boracay island in Aklan within the week, formalizing the six-month closure of the country’s premier tourist draw. “It’s in the works,” Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque Roque said while ...