Browsing Aquatic News Index by Subject "mangrove conservation"

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    • ₱1-B mangrove rehab project to benefit E. Visayas 

      Cayubit, Restituto A. (Manila Bulletin, March 14, 2014, on page 17)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is undertaking a massive mangrove rehabilitation project estimated at a cost P1 billion that will benefit Eastern Visayas and other super-typhoon Yolanda hit areas ...

    • 1st Mangrove Congress on Research & Development set 

      (The Philippine Star, November 25, 2012, on page B-12)
      The 1st ASEAN Mangrove Congress on Research and Development unfold on Dec. 3-7, at the Century Park Hotel, Manila with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB) ...

    • 2-T mangroves planted in NegOcc's coastal village 

      PN; Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Panay News, March 2, 2019, on page 10)
      “We only have one planet earth – one world. It is our earth. Our home.” This was the statement of Ignacio Cabayao Jr., chief Agrarian Reform Program officer during a mangrove-planting activity in Barangay Tomongtong’s ...

    • 200 Aklan employees to plant 8,000 mangroves 

      Villanueva, Venus (The Daily Guardian, January 17, 2014, on page B6)
      About 200 employees of the Provincial Capitol of Aklan will plant 8,000 mangrove propagules on January 22 at the Bakhawan Eco-Park in New Buswang here. Activity organizer Economic Enterprise Development Department (EEDD) ...

    • 200 mangrove propagules planted in Nueva Valencia 

      Sornito, Ime (Panay News, February 23, 2021, on page 9-14)
      Some 200 mangrove propagules were planted along the coast of Barangay La Paz here on Feb. 20 by personnel of the municipal government and police station. Mangrove planting is a quarterly activity of the local government. ...

    • 285 pairs wed, plant mangrove sampling 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 15, 2010, on page A1)
      They thought "green" on a red-letter day. Up to 285 couples said "I do's" and then planted mangrove saplings in a Valentine's Day mass wedding held at a coastal area in Puerto Princesa City yesterday. Officiated by Palawan ...

    • $3 B lost with destruction of mangrove areas 

      Philippine News and Features (PNF) (The Manila Times, September 13, 1993, on page A7)
      Vital mangrove areas in the Philippines have shrunk to less than one per cent of its area in 1920. The loss could be worth as much as $3 billion. The country was among 30 countries with the largest mangrove areas in the ...

    • 350-ha mangrove reforestation up in Capiz 

      Guillermo, Jemin (Panay News, May 16, 2014, on page 4)
      Three hundred fifty hectares of mangrove areas in Capiz are set for reforestation. These mangrove areas are in the municipalities of Ivisan, Panay, Pilar, Pontevedra, President Roxas and Sapian, said Valentin Talabero ...

    • 4Ps beneficiaries help protect mangrove areas 

      Cayubit, Restituto A. (Manila Bulletin, February 20, 2017, on page 8)
      The beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) are helping protect the mangrove areas in this barangay and at the same time earning income for their ...

    • 5,000 mangroves planted in Anilao 

      PN (Panay News, May 28, 2017, on page B2)
      A total of 5,000 mangroves seedlings composed of potted bakawan (Rhizopora apiculata) and bungalon (Avicennia officinalis) were planted in Barangay San Carlos, Anilao, Iloilo, recently. The tree-planting activity was in ...

    • 500,000 mangroves for Olango 

      Indino, Phoebe Jen (Manila Bulletin, February 13, 2010, on page 14)
      As part of its effort to ensure the preservation and protection of coastal resources here, the Kanepackage Group Inc. through its KP Green Earth project in collaboration with the Region 7 office of the Department of ...

    • Abandoned fishpond is now mangrove sanctuary 

      Conserva, Louine Hope (The Daily Guardian, October 10, 2018, on page 13)
      A formerly abandoned fishpond is now teeming with Miyapi (A. rumphiana) mangrove trees. In November 2017, the town of Leganes, Iloilo has planted 15,000 trees in the 7.5-hectare area in Sitio Panus-on, Brgy. Nabitasan. It ...

    • 'Agri-nipa-aquaculture' technology developed 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, November 17, 2002, on page 1)
      Here's a new technology that can prove viable and profitable for people in coastal areas. Called "Agri-nipa-aquaculture technology," it combines nipa (and palm) and agricultural crops with fish production, variations of ...

    • Aklan brgy has widest natural mangrove area 

      Bandiola, Odon S. (Panay News, March 18, 1999, on page 7-6)
      Despite being considered as the province's fishing sanctuary at the Sibuyan sea, barangay Bogtongbato, a coastal barangay in this town 39 kilometers west of Kalibo, still continues to remain thriving on subsistence fishing ...

    • Aklan town vies for largest mangrove in Asia 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (The Daily Guardian, July 1, 2010, on page 3-6)
      This bustling town in the Western part of the province is vying to have the largest mangrove in Asia. Mayor Lulu Miraflores said a group of Japanese experts has arrived in the town recently to document the mangrove in the ...

    • Aklanons to plant more mangroves 

      (Panay News, August 21, 2014, on page 7)
      This is the Isla Capispisan mangrove forest in New Washington, Aklan. Some 81.809 hectares of mangrove areas in New Washington will be reforested this year. Mangrove areas in Batan, Nabas, ibajay, Makato, Tangalan, and ...

    • An amazing walk in a Mangrove park 

      Burgos, Nestor P. Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 24, 2010, on page A11)
      Researchers of the Iloilo based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development CenterAquaculture Department (Seafdec-AQD), including Primavera, first took notice of the pristine mangroves of Ibajay in 1996 while conducting field ...

    • As tides rise, Indian villagers find a friend in mangroves 

      Basu, Moushumi (Malaya, November 28, 2018, on page B5)
      Pushpo Mandal still remembers the day, nine years ago, when Cyclone Aila struck and the slender creek at the southern edge of her village swelled into a watery monster.Tall tidal waves broke through the earth embankment, ...

    • Asean ministers' spouses plant mangroves in Aklan 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI; PN (Panay News, March 12, 2017, on page 4-14)
      The spouses of Foreign Ministers of Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and the Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) went mangrove planting at the Sitio Lugutan mangrove site ...

    • ASEAN tackles mangrove management 

      (Manila Bulletin, August 31, 2017, on page B-9)
      The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will try to work out a collaborative sustainable mangrove management in the region amid climate change in a Mangrove Congress September 4-8 in Manila. The Department of ...