Browsing by Subject "marine mammals"

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    • Blast fishing eyed in dolphin stranding in Lingayen Gulf 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 24, 2022, on page A10)
      Marine mammal experts have started investigating the cause of what they described as an “unusual” number of dolphins getting stranded in different coastal towns along the Lingayen Gulf recently. Records from the Bureau of ...

    • Blast fishing in Lingayen Gulf goes on, say villagers 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel; Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 22, 2015, on page A16)
      Perez, a former governor of the Board of Investments and a daughter of the late Speaker Eugenio Perez, said she had been hearing explosions day and night since Sept. 4. “My house shakes whenever there is an explosion,” she ...

    • Blast fishing seen cause of dolphin stranding 

      Adriano, Leilanie (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 28, 2014, on page A13)
      Unabated blast fishing in Ilocos Norte province’s waters and its neighboring coastal areas has been identified as one of the major causes of dolphin stranding here, a report of the Philippine Marine Mammal Stranding Network ...

    • Bohol town mayor defies acting gov on whale shark feeding 

      Udtohan, Leo (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 18, 2020, on page A10)
      Lila town Mayor Arturo “Jed” Piollo II continues to defy an executive order issued by Bohol Acting Gov. Rene Relampagos suspending all whale shark feeding and watching activities in the town. Piollo also declined an ...

    • 'Born to be Wild' airs three-part anniversary special 

      (Manila Standard, November 10, 2019, on page D3)
      Today, travel and wildlife program Born to be Wild premiers its three-part anniversary special to celebrate its 12 years on television. As a young vet starting his hosting job in Born to be Wild nearly 12 years ago, Doc ...

    • Bottlenose dolphin saved 

      Lazaro, Freddie G. (Manila Bulletin, August 20, 2010, on page 9)
      Local officials returned to sea yesterday a bottle-nose dolphin stranded and recovered along the shorelines in Barangay Namalpalan, Magsingal, Ilocos Sur. Ilocos Sur's Fishery Regulation Officer Benny Saraos said the ...

    • Bottlenose dolphin stranded in Bataan 

      Esconde, Ernie (The Manila Times, March 31, 2014, on page 9)
      A female Bottlenose dolphin that was stranded on Saturday in the shallow water near the Wetland and Nature Park here was found to be weak and without buoyancy. “Mahina, hindi makalangoy. Tinitingnan namin kung maaaring ...

    • Boy, 8, gets int'l award for saving 400-kg dolphin 

      De Vera, Ellalyn B. (Manila Bulletin, September 15, 2010, on page 1-9)
      An eight-year-old boy from Mindoro was conferred an award by an international conservation group for saving a beached dolphin on the coast of San Teodoro in Oriental Mindoro last September 13. Carl Andrei Leuterio, a ...

    • Butanding sighted in Cavite waters, again 

      Giron, Anthony (Manila Bulletin, January 29, 2015, on page 13)
      A butanding (whale shark0 was sighted yesterday by banca-riding fishermen off the shore of Isla de Bonito de Salinas, a public resort here. It was the third endangered marine mammal species that went near the shores of ...

    • Carcass of female whale found 

      Barcia, Rhayz D. (The Manila Times, October 10, 2019, on page A5)
      The carcass of a young female sperm whale found dead at Tabgon village in Caramoan town last October 5 underwent necropsy to determine the cause of death and to preserve the skeleton for scientific display to the public. ...

    • Catanduanes blast fishing kills 9 whales 

      Dematera, Cet; Simeon, Louise Maureen (The Philippine Star, October 9, 2020, on page 14)
      Nine melon-headed whales, believed to be victims of dynamite fishing, washed ashore in Barangay Bonot, San Andres, Catanduanes yesterday. “These whales suffered acoustic trauma due to a strong explosion in the water,” ...

    • Celebrate the presence of whales, dolphins and sharks in your waters 

      Simmonds, Mark (The Manila Times, March 4, 2015, on page A5)
      I was very concerned to learn of the recent comments made in Cebu City at the Tanon Strait Protected Seascape Stakeholders' Summit concerning possible culling of marine top predators in Philippines' waters. There appears ...

    • Center of biodiversity 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 14, 2017, on page 14)
      The Philippines is the "center of the center" of marine fish diversity. We have 2,983 fish species compared to the other countries within the Coral Triangle, the center of marine biodiversity of the world.

    • Climate change affects whales 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, December 3, 2015, on page B7)
      The sight of thousands of whales surfacing, jumping and playing off the coast of South America as they migrate toward their breeding grounds is one of nature’s most majestic displays. But global warming is killing off their ...

    • Climate change pushing killer whales to go north 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, January 29, 2019, on page B3)
      Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord. Their favorite meal, herring, abound, but climate change means both predator and prey must increasingly ...

    • Coca-Cola PH, partners collect more than 1,000 kgs of waste in coastal cleanup in Tanza, Cavite 

      (Manila Bulletin, October 7, 2023, on page B-5)
      Coca-cola Philippines, together with Plastic Bank Philippines and Lighthouse Legacy Foundation, led over 200 volunteers to collect debris and marine waste at Julugan Fish Terminal in Tanza, Cavite, on Sept. 16, as part of ...

    • Countries move to save sea cow population 

      De Vera-Ruiz, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin, March 30, 2017, on page B-8)
      As global sea cow (dugong) populations have been declining and the species classified as “vulnerable to extinction,” countries with surviving population of the animal need all the help they can get to help the elusive ...

    • Court order sought vs export of dolphins to Singapore 

      Mateo, Janvic (The Philippine Star, October 13, 2012, on page 1-5)
      A Quezon City court stopped yesterday the Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) from issuing a permit to re-export to Singapore 25 dolphins in Ocean Adventure Park in Subic. Quezon ...

    • Dead 'dugong' found in Sagay reef 

      (SunStar Philippines, July 22, 2022, on page 3-7)
      A dead sea cow locally known as “dugong” was found in Macahulom Reef, one of the reefs at the Sagay Marine Reserve in Sagay City, for the first time after more than two decades, on Monday, July 18. Reports from City ...

    • Dead dolphin, turtle washed ashore 

      Yap, Tara (Manila Bulletin, January 27, 2022, on page 5)
      A dead dolphin and a dead turtle have recently washed ashore in Panay town, Capiz province. The Capiz Provincial Environment and Resources Office (Capiz PENRO) reported that the dolphin shoreline of Butacal and Navitas ...