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    • Opportunities emerge from rehab efforts 

      Burgos, Nestor Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 13, 2014, on page A14)
      Communities in areas ravaged by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” in Western Visayas have started to pick up the pieces, but government planners, officials and business leaders are seeing difficulty in reaching full recovery. On the ...

    • Opposition slams stand on SCS, death penalty 

      Flores, Helen; Romero, Paolo; Porcalla, Delon; Punay, Edu; Simeon, Louise Maureen (The Philippine Star, July 28, 2020, on page 5)
      Members of the opposition slammed yesterday President Duterte’s call to revive the death penalty and his statement that he was “inutile” and “cannot do anything” in the face of China’s aggression in the South China Sea, ...

    • Options for Laguna Lake 

      Ynares, Jun A. (Manila Bulletin, December 12, 2010, on page 11)
      We were privileged to have seen first-hand President Noynoy Aquino at work as a consensus-builder. The President recently called the various key stakeholders in the issues and challenges related to the survival of Laguna ...

    • Oral argument for writ of kalikasan 

      (BusinessWorld, June 19, 2019, on page S1/10)
      The Supreme Court has moved the oral argument for the April 16 petition for writ of kalikasan filed by fisherfolk in Palawan and Zambales and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) seeking to enjoin the government to ...

    • Organic aquaculture gets boost with joint initiatives 

      Guadalquiver, Nanette L. (The Visayan Daily Star, October 3, 2007, on page 13)
      Organic aquaculture is getting a boost with the joint initiatives of Negros Occidental, the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), German Development Services (DED) and their other partners in looking into the feasibility of ...

    • Organic rice, fish & veggies 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 13, 2010, on page 16)
      The half-hectare lot was divided into five rice paddies, separated by dikes that are about a meter wide. Along the dikes surrounding the rice plants in each paddy, they constructed a canal which was stocked with either ...

    • Organization of fishermen seeks gov’t help for members 

      Ochave, Mikhael D. (BusinessWorld, November 19, 2021, on page S1/2)
      The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA), an organization of small fishermen, said the government needs to provide aid to small fisherfolk during the three-month closed fishing season in the ...

    • Orion folk decry closure of dockyard; mayor claims mangrove destruction 

      Supnad, Mar T. (Manila Bulletin, January 6, 2015, on page 18)
      People of this town are up in arms against their own mayor and decried Friday the alleged unfair closure of a multi-billion investment in the coastal barangay of Sta. Elena, saying their town was not only denied of millions ...

    • Ornamental fish farmers: Aquaculture's next big trend? 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 7, 2015, on page B2-1)
      Fishkeeping—part art, part science—is now the world’s most popular hobby after photography. Globally valued at $15 billion and growing by 14 percent yearly, the ornamental fish trade is aquaculture’s sunrise industry. So ...

    • Orphaned dugong conservation star 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, July 5, 2019, on page A1-A2)
      Cuddles at feeding time are one of many techniques vets in Thailand are using to raise an orphaned baby dugong named Mariam, and which have helped spread interest in ocean conservation in the process. Found stranded on a ...

    • Oslob cuts down whale shark watching tourists to 800/day 

      Freeman (BusinessWorld, October 12, 2018, on page S1/12)
      Stakeholders in Oslob town have agreed to reduce the number of daily tourists who can go whale shark watching to 800 from 1,000 as part of efforts to balance environmental protection with economic gains. Following a ...

    • Oslob limits whale shark tours to 800 guests daily 

      Newman, Minerva BC (Manila Bulletin, October 30, 2018, on page 10)
      The number of tourists allowed to swim and/or mingle with whale sharks will be limited to 800 per day by the Oslob Technical Working Group. Cebu Provincial Tourism Officer Boboi Costas said the decision was reached in close ...

    • Oslob resumes whale shark watching but visitors still few 

      Israel, Dale G. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 7, 2020, on page A8)
      Whale shark watching in Oslob town in Cebu has resumed as the province reopened its doors to tourists in a bid to revive its struggling economy amid the new coronavirus disease pandemic. But from around 1,000 tourists, the ...

    • Oslob shark tourism cited by National Geographic 

      Talavera, Catherine (The Philippine Star, September 2, 2018, on page 1-7)
      National Geographic has cited Oslob in Cebu for its shark tourism industry, describing it as a booming business despite its effects on wildlife still being debated on. “In the Philippines, whale shark tourism is a booming ...

    • Oslob shark tourism needs sustainable model, says study 

      Talavera, Catherine (The Philippine Star, December 13, 2018, on page B11)
      A sustainable model for shark tourism needs to be implemented in Tan-awan, Oslob in Cebu as it is leading to the degradation of the local coral reef ecosystem,a collaborative research by the University of Hong Kong (HKU), ...

    • Oslob whale shark watching resumes, limits no. of tourists 

      ANV (SunStar Philippines, August 1, 2020, on page 4)
      Oslob’s well-known whale shark watching ventures were officially reopened by Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia when she formally relaunched the Province’s tourism activities on Friday, July 31, 2020. Accompanied by local officials ...

    • Oslob's whale watching industry incurs ₱30-M loss 

      Cordova, Calvin D. (Manila Bulletin, July 20, 2020, on page 5)
      The tourism industry in Oslob town, southern Cebu, incurred at least P30 million in losses due to the community quarantine that the government imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (2019). Whale watching ...

    • The other polluted waters 

      (The Philippine Star, February 18, 2018, on page 14)
      Boracay, however, is not the only place suffering from polluted waters in this archipelago of 7,100 islands. All over the country, many other bodies of water are polluted – seas, rivers, lakes and creeks – not only turning ...

    • Other threats off our coastal waters 

      Salvador, Alma Maria (BusinessWorld, January 8, 2015, on page 6/S1)
      China's territorial expansion in the South China Sea, illegal poaching by Chinese and other foreign fishers in Philippine internal waters, and piracy in Southeast Asian waters are driving the Philippine government to focus ...

    • Oton deploys artificial reefs 

      Garcia, E. C. (Panay News, February 26, 2014, on page 3)
      The municipality of Oton has installed another batch of artificial reefs on its municipal waters in a bid to regain its marine and aquatic resources on Monday. A ceremonial installation was held at Poblacion South, a coastal ...