Browsing Aquatic News Index by Subject "mangrove swamps"

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    • Asia's natural shield against tsunamis disappearing 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, January 23, 2005, on page 2)
      Asia's mangrove areas, the region's vital frontline shield against tidal waves and tsunamis, are gradually but consistently disappearing. What were once lush mangrove swamps have been obliterated to give way to the ...

    • Crablets released as Tagum boosts soft-shell crab production, aquaculture 

      Carillo, Carmencita (BusinessWorld, January 14, 2016, on page S1/5)
      Travelers entering Tagum City from Davao City, about 45 kilometers to the southwest, are greeted by a massive bronze-colored statue of a traditional bangka boat with fisherfolk aboard: a symbol of Tagum’s commitment to ...

    • DA completes Central Visayas survey 

      Indino, Phoebe Jen (Manila Bulletin, February 16, 2014, on page 17)
      The Region 7 office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7) has already completed the boundary delineation of protected areas (PA's) in Central Visayas last year. "We finished demarcating and ...

    • DENR to Congress: Rush law to protect forest rangers 

      Andrade, Jeannette I.; Miranda, Romar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 17, 2020, on page A8)
      A top environment official has asked Congress to hasten the passage of a law creating an enforcement bureau under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) that would arm forest rangers and ensure their ...

    • Environmental degradation is Boracay's main problem 

      (The Manila Times, May 10, 2018, on page B6)
      Scientists and academicians gathered in Manila last month for a conference to map out a plan for Boracay's rehabilitation while tracing the resort island's woes to environmental degradation due to poor local governance.

    • Mangrove protection key to survival for Senegalese community 

      (The Philippine Star, November 10, 2016, on page B-11)
      Pelicans, flamingos, monkeys and even hyenas are under threat in Senegal along with the livelihoods of the local people as thick clusters of mangroves are disappearing. And it seems that not even an ancestral spirit can ...

    • 'Mangroves good for coastal villages': Int'l Day of Forests marked 

      Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-Iloilo; PN (Panay News, March 24, 2014, on page 4)
      Planting mangroves in Brgy. Talisay, Barotac Nuevo town was the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) way of celebrating the international day of forests. Some 150 mangrove propagules were planted Friday ...

    • Measure cuts time for new forest land 

      Yap, DJ (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 23, 2015, on page A3)
      The House of Representatives has passed a bill shortening the period of time before an abandoned fishpond could revert to being categorized as forest land. Hose Bil No. 5845, authored by Bulacan Rep. Linabelle Ruth Villarica, ...

    • PCG, DENR probing Batangas oil spill 

      Macairan, Evelyn; Ozaeta, Arnel; Villanueva, Rhodina (The Philippine Star, July 7, 2010, on page A-21)
      The Philippine Coast (PCG) is investigating who should be held accountable for the discharge of bunker fuel that has affected a mangrove area in Calatagan, Batangas since Sunday. PCG commandant Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo ...

    • Philippine beach forests 

      (The Philippine Star, December 1, 2012, on page B-7)
      Beach Forest Species and Mangrove Associates in the Philippines is the latest contribution of the tandem of Jurgenne Primavera and Rex Sadaba who eight years earlier published the highly acclaimed Handbook of the Mangroves ...

    • Plastic wasteland: Asia's ocean pollution crisis 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, June 6, 2018, on page B5)
      A Vietnamese mangrove draped with polythene, a whale killed after swallowing waste bags in Thai seas and clouds of underwater trash near Indonesian “paradise” islands—grim images of the plastic crisis that has gripped Asia.

    • West Africa sets out to protect dying mangroves 

      Thompson, Felicity (BusinessWorld, March 12, 2010, on page S3/8)
      Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's ...

    • Zambo City all set for massive mangrove planting 

      Lacson, Nonoy E. (Manila Bulletin, January 21, 2014, on page 16)
      The Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) in this city will embark on a massive planting of mangroves in at least three coastal villages of this city in an effort to revive the spawning site, habitat ...