Browsing by Place "French Polynesia"

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    • PH hailed as world's leading dive, beach destination 

      (Panay News, November 17, 2022, on page 21-23)
      The Philippines has been hailed the World’s Leading Dive Destination and the World’s Leading Beach Destination for 2022 at the 29th World Travel Awards Grand Final Gala Ceremony held in Muscat, Oman, recently. “These global ...

    • Sharks worth more for tourism than in soup 

      Reuters (Malaya, June 7, 2013, on page B1)
      Sharks swimming free in the oceans may soon become more valuable as tourist attractions than when caught, sliced up and served i soup, a global study showed on Friday. It urged better protection for the fish, from Australia ...

    • Sharks worth more for tourism than in soup - study 

      Doyle, Alister (BusinessWorld, June 7, 2013, on page S3/11)
      Sharks swimming free in the oceans may soon become more valuable as tourist attractions than when caught, sliced up and served in soup, a global study showed last week. It urged better protection for the fish, from Australia ...

    • Tahiti pearls endangered by climate change 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, November 26, 2015, on page B8)
      The black pearl of Tahiti is at the heart of French Polynesia’s economy but is now highly vulnerable to climate change, and its fragile existence underlines – in a small but exquisite way – what is at stake in the United ...

    • Vibrant Oceans Initiative backs Oceana PH drives 

      (Manila Standard, November 17, 2018, on page A5-A5)
      The Philippines has been selected anew by Bloomberg Philanthropies as one of the priority countries for its Vibrant Oceans Phase II—making an investment of USD $86 million, it said in a press statement. The fund is to be ...