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Declare part of PH Rise ‘no take zone,’ Duterte urged
Environmental groups on Thursday called on the government to exercise jurisdiction over the Philippine Rise by declaring part of it, the 17,000-hectare Benham Bank, as a “no-take” zone, where fishing and other human activity ...
- February 16, 2018
Duterte not so lovin' China?
President Duterte yesterday said China should "temper its behavior" on the South China Sea/ West Philippine Sea area. Duterte, during the launch of Go Negosyo's "Pilipinas Angat Lahat," said "one of these days, before my ...
- August 15, 2018
Killing watersheds, killing life
The simplest, most graphic and perhaps the most eloquent argument against open pit mining is found, not in the voluminous academic dissertations where arguments encompass the spectrum from bludgeoned biodiversity and ravaged ...
- March 14, 2017
World-class marine products showcased at NXTFood Asia
The Philippine archipelago is home to one of the richest and most diverse aquatic ecosystems in the world. It is through this that the country enjoys an abundance of commercial and domesticated fish, crustaceans and mollusks. ...
- May 19, 2019
PEMSEA presents solutions to rid rivers of plastic waste for Earth Day
To celebrate Earth Day 2022, Pemsea (Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia) released a set of studies to help manage plastic waste entering the world's rivers. The five studies were launched ...
- April 21, 2022
Coral Triangle stakeholders vow to patronize only legal operations
Fishing operators and buyers who attended the first ever business summit to address overexploitation and overfishing in the Coral Triangle have promised not to source their products from illegal, unregulated and unreported ...
- January 22, 2010
123 soft-shell turtles seized near NAIA
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) intercepted 123 live Chinese soft-shell turtles, packed in seven polystyrene boxes, at the Pair Cargo warehouse near the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 (NAIA-1) last Friday. BOC ...
- November 12, 2017
Typhoon ‘Rosita’ causes ₱131 M in damage to agriculture
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said yesterday that more than P130 million worth of damage was recorded in Northern Luzon as a result of typhoon "Rosita". NDRRMC Executive Director and ...
- November 5, 2018
Phl, Vietnam to hold technical exchanges on crops, fisheries protection
The Philippines and Vietnam have agreed to hold technical exchanges for the protection of the crops and fisheries subsectors after the resumption of bilateral talks on agriculture, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said ...
- July 27, 2015
PH lags behind in race to grab reefs
Philippine military chief General Gregorio Catapang looks worried as he surveys the rusted cranes and eroded runway on the tiny island of Thitu, now on the front line of a rapidly intensifying construction war in the South ...
- May 14, 2015