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Canned sardines shortage looms
Fisherfolk leaders and sardine cannery owners are asking the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to convene a meeting with them and include coastal local government units (LGUs) to discuss the looming shortage ...
- September 20, 2022
Yellow silent on Malaysian grab of PH territory
The Yellows keep ranting that President Duterte hasn’t continued to quarrel with the superpower China to assert our sovereign rights in our exclusive economic zone — ignorant of, or rejecting the fact that not just China, ...
- August 10, 2020
Oil spill from Viet ship unlikely – PCG
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Monday said Antique waters were safe from possible oil spill from a Vietnamese-flagged cargo vessel. The MV Globe 6 ran aground in waters between Nagubat Island and Liwagao Island in ...
- August 18, 2020
Cimatu lauds call for Boracay Authority
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has lauded President Rodrigo Duterte for calling Congress to pass a measure creating the Boracay Island Development Authority (BIDA) to sustain gains from the rehabilitation of the world-famous ...
- July 31, 2020
Antique's underwater beauty preems on Discovery Channel
Antique may not be the first province that comes to mind when one thinks of Western Visayas. With the world-famous Boracay Island in Aklan, culinary hotspot Iloilo and the Mango Capital of the Philippines, Guimaras, among ...
- March 23, 2022
Toyota adopts 10-ha mangrove plantation area in Lian, Batangas
Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation (TMP) recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Local Government of Lian, Batangas to clean-up, rehabilitate ...
- October 27, 2020
‘Quinta’, ‘Rolly’ leave P5-B agri damage
Agricultural damage and losses caused by Typhoon “Quinta” (international name: “Molave”) and Super Typhoon “Rolly” (“Goni”) reached P4.56 billion, data from the Department of Agriculture (DA) showed. Total volume of ...
- November 5, 2020
High seas treaty on allocating fish across jurisdiction
On Dec. 24, 2017, the UN General Assembly voted to convene a multi-year process to develop a treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity, now referred to as the Treaty on Biodiversity in ...
- June 11, 2022
DENR crafting policy to protect watershed areas
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is crafting an executive order to prioritize watershed rescue to counter effects of climate-linked calamities and ensure replenishment of irrigation and hydro-electric ...
- July 5, 2021
US to name warship after Filipino sailor hero
The United States Navy will name one of its future destroyers after a Filipino sailor who rescued two fellow crewmen when their ship caught fire more than a century ago. In a tweet Thursday, US Secretary of the Navy Carlos ...
- May 21, 2022