Browsing by Subject "coral reef conservation"

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    • Palau first to ban 'reef toxic' sun cream 

      BBC (Panay News, January 4, 2020, on page 9)
      The Pacific nation of Palau has become the first country to ban sun cream that is harmful to corals and sea life. From Wednesday, sun cream that includes common ingredients, including oxybenzone, is not allowed to be worn ...

    • Palau to ban sunscreen as it tries to save its coral reefs 

      Associated Press (AP) (Panay News, November 3, 2018, on page 13)
      In an attempt to protect the coral reefs that divers so admire they have dubbed them underwater Serengeti, the Pacific nation of Palau will soon ban many types of sunscreen. President Tommy Remengesau Jr. last week signed ...

    • Pangasinan’s Hundred Islands now a coral restoration site 

      Fernandez, Rudy (The Philippine Star, January 4, 2016, on page B7)
      On a clear day at low tide, all 124 islets that constitute Pangasinan’s world-famous Hundred Islands can be seen. But come high tide, one of the islets disappears under the swollen waters of Lingayen Gulf situated off the ...

    • 'PH needs more marine reserves' 

      Sologastoa, Glenda (Panay News, June 21, 2015, on page 2-27)
      No-take marine reserves (NTMRs) are areas of the sea, usually with coral reefs -- but could include other coastal ecosystems such as mangroves and seagrasses -- that are fully protected from fishing. The area around MPAs ...

    • PH oceans get a break, thanks to MPIC's shore it up 

      Manila Standards (Manila Standard, March 3, 2018, on page B4)
      All over the country are quaint coastal towns, unknown to many people in Metro Manila, despite their rich biodiversity and exceptional beauty. From Alaminos, Pangasinan to Mabini, Batangas; Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro ...

    • Phl coral reefs suffering despite laws against destructive fishing 

      (The Philippine Star, April 5, 2018, on page B6)
      Some of the fishing methods used in today’s small-scale fisheries are causing more damage to coral reefs than ever, an online science news site has reported, citing a recent study by the University of British Columbia. ...

    • Pioneer Adhesives launches community, environmental efforts in Palawan 

      (Malaya, July 20, 2016, on page B7)
      Republic Chemical Industries Inc. (RCI), maker of Pioneer Epoxy, and its affiliate Pioneer Adhesive Foundation Inc. (PAFI), have recently conducted community relations and environmental efforts last July 15-17, 2016 in ...

    • Plans for new Tubbataha ranger station unveiled 

      (The Philippine Star, August 11, 2013, on page B-4)
      Legendary hereos need great hideouts- Batman had his Batcave, Darth Vader had two Death Stars and Voltes V had Camp Big Falcon. For the dedicated rangers standing vigil over the Philippines' top coral reef, home sweet home ...

    • Predators now protectors of Tubbataha marine park 

      Lingao, Ed; Espina-Letargo, Justine (Malaya, December 24, 2010, on page B6)
      It's been a challenge every step of the way, but the efforts of Tubbataha's warriors have not been for naught. The WWF reports that the hard coral cover of Tubbataha increased from 40 percent in 2004 to 46 percent in 2005, ...

    • Protecting the Coral Triangle a top priority 

      NJCM (BusinessWorld, January 20, 2010, on page S1/1-S1/3)
      Protecting the biodiversity-rich Coral Triangle needs the combined efforts of the government and private sector, and should be a top priority if the region wants to sustain the area's vast fishery resource, experts yesterday ...

    • Protecting the underwater fast-food joint 

      Agoot, Liza T. (Manila Bulletin, June 25, 2015, on page B-9)
      The reclamation activities of the Chinese in the West Philippine Sea has allegedly destroyed a large parcel of coral reefs, threatening to affect the supply of fish and other marine products for the Philippines including ...

    • Protection of coral reefs pushed 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Bulletin, May 3, 2015, on page 17)
      The provincial government is pushing the ₱6.6 million reef protection project surrounding the Agutayan Islet off the coast of the town of Jasaan, east of here. Provincial Governor Vincente Yevgeny Emano disclosed this after ...

    • Province gears up for int'l coastal cleanup day 

      Philippine Information Agency (PIA); PN (Panay News, September 7, 2010, on page 3)
      Antique is currently laying out activities for the International Coastal Cleanup Day. According to Percival C. Macahilig, Environment and Natural Resources officer, there will be a cleaning of shorelines in Anini-y town ...

    • Public asked to preserve reefs 

      Philippine Information Agency (PIA) (Manila Bulletin, May 20, 2015, on page 16)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Eastern Visayas (DENR-8) is asking the public here to join campaigns for the protection and preservation of reefs. This, as the nation celebrates May as Month of the ...

    • Rare Tahiti coral reef 'like a work of art' 

      (Daily Tribune, January 30, 2022, on page B16)
      One of the largest coral reefs in the world has been discovered by a United Nation (UN)-supported scientific mission off the coast Tahiti. Announcing the stunning find UNESCO said drivers has explored large rose-shaped ...

    • Red sea reefs offer last refuge for corals 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, October 11, 2022, on page A6)
      Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life that could become the world’s “last coral refuge” as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere, researchers say. Most shallow water ...

    • Reef Alert 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 9, 2016, on page A14)
      There is no way attention will be directed at the crying urgency of protecting the coral reefs unless we belabor the issue and repeat ourselves. At the rate coral reefs are being destroyed by human activity or damaged by ...

    • Reef assessment training in Antique 

      (DailyGuardian, March 12, 2021, on page 5)
      The Reef Wanderers will hold a Reef Assessment Training for its members on March 13-14, 2021 (first batch) at Brgy. Nato, Anini-y, Antique. The training aims to familiarize the members on the different methodologies used ...

    • Reef buds attract more fish species to Boracay 

      Aguirre, J. N. (Panay News, February 19, 2013, on page 2)
      Various species of fish are now attracted to Boracay Island's water becuase of the reef bud technology originally developed by Austrian geoscientist Harald Kremnitz. Kremnitz entrusted the technology to his long time ...

    • Reef fisheries of the Spratlys, West Philippine Sea 

      Alcala, Angel C. (Malaya, September 24, 2015, on page B5)
      Nañola et al. in 1997 reported 248 species from 1991 to 1996 in the Kalayaan Group of Islands (KIG). The larger species had an average standing stock or biomass of 114 metric tons per km2. But the Joint Oceanographic and ...