Browsing by Subject "Ingestion"

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    • Baby dugong dies of plastic ingestion 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 18, 2019, on page A9)
      A sick baby dugong whose fight for recovery won hearts in Thailand and cast a spotlight on ocean conservation has died from an infection exacerbated by bits of plastic lining her stomach, officials said Saturday. "Mariam" ...

    • Green sea turtle dies after ingesting plastic straw, nylon 

      Lacson, Nonoy E. (Manila Bulletin, February 25, 2021, on page 5)
      A female Green Sea Turtle died shortly after it was rescued by Community Environment and Natural Resources (CENRO) of Guipos and Bureau of Fish and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Barangay Kabatan, Vincenzo Sagun, Zamboanga ...

    • Plastic wastes found inside fish from Chico River 

      See, Dexter (Manila Bulletin, May 1, 2010, on page 15)
      Environmentalists and agriculture stakeholders here are alarmed over the worsening pollution in Chico River so much so that fish caught in it have ingested plastic wastes. The alarm was raised by the concerned stakeholders ...

    • Rare shark found in Albay's Burias Pass 

      Barcia, Rhaydz B. (The Manila Times, January 30, 2015, on page A6)
      A fisherman had the surprise of his life when he fished out a lifeless but very rare 15-foot deepwater megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) in Burias Pass on Wednesday. Nonie Enolva, marine fisheries resources management ...

    • Rescued turtle found to have ingested plastics 

      Tejano, Ivy (Manila Bulletin, July 22, 2020, on page 5)
      Personnel of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Digos City and Davao del Sur province with the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) rescued a green sea turtle in Santa Cruz town. According to the World ...

    • Thai marine biologist pleads for dugong conservation plan 

      Associated Press (AP) (Panay News, October 5, 2019, on page 9)
      A top marine biologist has urged Thailand’s government to speed up conservation plans for the dugong, an imperiled sea mammal, after their death toll for the year in Thai waters has already climbed to a record 21. Thon ...

    • Whale killers 

      (The Philippine Star, March 25, 2019, on page 12)
      In the Compostela town of Mabini last March 15, a juvenile Cuvier’s beaked whale was found ashore and died shortly. When opened up for inspection on the cause of death, the beached 500-kilo creature had 40 kilos of plastic ...

    • What we need to know about red tide 

      Villanueva, Venus G. (The Daily Guardian, December 9, 2015, on page 7)
      More than two weeks after the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) announced that the fish-rich Batan Bay and its tributaries in three coastal towns are affected by red tide, a desperate fisherman challenged ...

    • ‘Worm alert’: Sushi parasites have increased 283x in the past 40 years 

      Thomas, Liji (Panay News, March 21, 2020, on page 9)
      A new study published in the journal Global Change Biology in March 2020 on the occurrence of certain worms in raw or undercooked seafood, in the form of sushi, sashimi, nigiri, etc., reports an increase in the number of ...

    • Zero marine litter 

      (Panay News, April 9, 2018, on page 8)
      Going to the beach this summer? Leave only your footprints in the sands. Please don’t leave your cigarette butts, plastics and leftover food behind. Keeping our beaches and shores free of trash is one way of reducing the ...