Browsing Manila Bulletin by Subject "natural resources"

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    • China respects PH rights: Survey mulled on Benham Rise to check on resources – Lorenzana 

      Mabasa, Roy; Wakefield, Francis; Rosario, Ben R.; Aben, Elena L. (Manila Bulletin, March 16, 2017, on page 1-9)
      China said it fully respects the Philippines’ rights over the continental shelf in the Benham Rise located northeast of Luzon and vowed not to challenge those rights. This statement was issued after the Philippines sought ...

    • DENR tapped as lead agency to protect marine ecosystems of Philippine Rise 

      Kabiling, Genalyn D. (Manila Bulletin, May 19, 2018, on page 4)
      President Duterte has ordered the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to take administrative jurisdiction and control of Philippine Rise Marine Resource Reserve (PRMRR) to ensure the protection of the ...

    • DFA to presidential aspirants: prioritize West PH Sea territorial claims 

      Luces, Niño N. (Manila Bulletin, October 14, 2015, on page 18)
      All those aspiring to be the next president must include – if not prioritize – the nation’s claim to West Philippine Sea territories in their respective platforms of government, a senior official of the Department of Foreign ...

    • Duterte warns Philippine Rise trespassers, poachers 

      Kabiling, Genalyn (Manila Bulletin, February 11, 2018, on page 6)
      In a bid to protect the country’s territory, President Duterte has authorized the military to fire at foreign intruders trying to extract natural resources from the Philippine Rise. The President asserted that the area ...

    • Gov’t urged to craft Benham Rise protection framework 

      Miraflor, Madelaine (Manila Bulletin, March 23, 2017, on page B1)
      The Philippine government was urged yesterday to create a protection framework for Benham Rise, an undersea territory east of Luzon brimming with natural resources, to prevent foreign vessels from trespassing. Oceana, the ...

    • Joint gas exploration puts China under PH control – Malacañang 

      Geducos, Argyll Cyrus B. (Manila Bulletin, March 6, 2018, on page 3)
      Malacañang said that China would have to comply to Philippine laws in case the joint exploration in Service Contract (SC) 57 pushes through as the said area is under the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Philippines. ...

    • Leave PH Rise alone – Duterte 

      Kabiling, Genalyn D. (Manila Bulletin, February 7, 2018, on page 1-6)
      Insisting the Philippine Rise is ours, President Duterte is putting a stop to the marine research and other exploration activities by foreign groups in the area. The President has decided that only Filipinos would be allowed ...

    • LGUs move to integrate climate policies 

      De Vera, Ellalyn B. (Manila Bulletin, December 15, 2016, on page B-9)
      Local governments have integrated climate change policies in their protected landscape and eco-town projects in disaster-prone areas in Marikina City and Rizal. In a multisectoral project together with the Southeast Asian ...

    • MVP firms champion mangroves protection 

      Loyola, James (Manila Bulletin, July 6, 2015, on page C4)
      A study by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) show that what used to be 500,000 hectares of mangrove forest spread across the country have slowly wilted down to just about 100,000 due to continuous land ...

    • Nature's newsmakers 

      Garlitos, Rayund M. (Manila Bulletin, February 5, 2017, on page 14)
      In a country blessed with natural resources and prone to weather disturbances, such issues that would have mattered little in terms of entertainment would actually have an immense impact on the lives of so many people. The ...

    • PH has sovereign rights over Benham Rise: Justice Carpio 

      Panaligan, Rey; Kabiling, Genalyn D.; Torregoza, Hannah L.; Wakefield, Francis T. (Manila Bulletin, March 15, 2017, on page 4)
      While Benham Rise is not part of Philippine national territory, “we have sovereign rights over it because we have exclusive right to explore and exploit the oil, gas and other mineral resources in the area,” Supreme Court ...

    • PH to purchase research vessels to explore territorial waters 

      Kabiling, Genalyn D. (Manila Bulletin, March 7, 2018, on page 1-11)
      The government is planning to acquire new maritime research vessels to be used in exploring territorial waters in the Philippine Rise. President Duterte gave the green light during a Cabinet meeting last Monday for the ...

    • The Philippines owned Spratly islands 

      Espina, Rene (Manila Bulletin, February 12, 2018, on page 11)
      After the stunning victory of the Philippines in its Spratly island claims at the UNCLOS court that decided that our country had the right to exploit its natural resources, the PROC, as expected, took several actions to ...

    • President backs Lopez on closure of mine operations to protect watersheds 

      Kabiling, Genalyn D. (Manila Bulletin, February 10, 2017, on page 2)
      President Duterte is backing the country’s environment secretary to keep the precious watersheds “off limits” to destructive mining operations. Environment Secretary Regina Lopez affirmed that the closure of mining operations ...

    • Protected eco areas in LGUs pushed 

      Iñigo, Liezle Basa (Manila Bulletin, February 10, 2017, on page 13)
      Governor Amado I. Espino III has ordered concerned municipal and city officials to establish and maintain protected ecological areas in their respective localities. Espino encouraged them to heed the call for environmental ...

    • Time to consider the creation of a Dep't of fisheries and aquatic resources 

      Javier, Emil (Manila Bulletin, May 13, 2018, on page B-4)
      The recent decision of President Duterte to return the National Food Authority (NFA), the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), and the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) ...

    • Top scientists: climate change is real threat 

      (Manila Bulletin, June 30, 2016, on page B8)
      Thirty-one of the country's top science organizations are telling Congress that global warming is a real problem and something needs to be done about it. The groups, which represent millions of scientists, sent the letter ...

    • Top UN official underlines importance of healthy oceans 

      (Manila Bulletin, June 30, 2016, on page B8)
      The UN deputy secretary-general, Jan Eliasson, said here that healthy oceans are critical to maintaining life on the planet, stressing their connection to broader sustainable development aims. Addressing the opening of the ...

    • US-PH deal to help conserve biodiversity 

      (Manila Bulletin, March 9, 2018, on page B-9)
      The US government, through the US Embassy in the Philippines’ United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to launch a new ...

    • USAID reinforces commitment to conservation in Palawan 

      Lazaro, Freddie G. (Manila Bulletin, March 8, 2018, on page 9)
      The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Lawrence Hardy II visited Palawan this week to meet with development partners and reinforce the US government’s commitment to the province’s ...