Browsing by Subject "coral farming"

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    • 27 train on coral restoration 

      Gadian, Margie (Panay News, February 26, 2013, on page 6)
      Twenty seven participants have graduated from the recently concluded training on underwater search and rescue and coral restoration in Nogas Island, Anini-y town. They were mostly form the Philippine Army. Experts from the ...

    • BFAR launches Coral Garden 

      Newsrepublic Press (The News Today, May 24, 2002, on page 1-3)
      In order to conserve the dwindling coral reefs in the country, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources along with other national government agencies had launched the first Coral Garden here. According to Malcolm ...

    • Cabadbaran City cultivates 'ridge-to-reef' ecosystem 

      (Manila Bulletin, August 27, 2015, on page B-8)
      The city of Cabadbaran, the provincial capital of August del Norte, is taking the lead in protecting its ridge to reef ecosystem. According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources' Protected Areas and Wildlife ...

    • CAFGU to lead planting of coral reef on Bagac beach 

      Supnad, Mar T. (Manila Bulletin, May 15, 2014, on page B-9)
      The Philippines Army's recruited Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) will spearhead the planting of around 20,000 coral reefs off the coastal area in Barangay Saysain, this town after the Department of Science ...

    • Coral cure in Bagac, Subic 

      Gunio, Butch (Manila Standard, November 12, 2016, on page C1)
      The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) are implementing ...

    • Coral farming introduced in Lubang 

      Santos, Eugene Y. (Manila Bulletin, February 3, 2013, on page 13)
      A private group has taken the initiative to coordinate with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) for the introduction of mariculture coral farming in Lubang, Occidental Mindoro. Through mariculture, a ...

    • Coral gardening beckons ecotourists to restore reefs 

      Sheridan, Kerry (Manila Bulletin, July 9, 2015, on page B9)
      Coral reefs are fragile and in danger worldwide, but a growing movement to restore them is based on the science of breaking off pieces in order to grow more, known as coral gardening. It works like this: marine biologists ...

    • Coral Planting 

      Supnad, Mar (Manila Bulletin, January 30, 2014, on page 14)
      Soldiers of the Army's 24th Infantry battalion will be planting 20,000 coral reefs in the coastal waters off Barangay Saysain to prepare the possible venue here for the 2015 Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC). Commanding ...

    • Coral regrowth is new crusade 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 5, 2016, on page A10)
      Every day at 9 a.m., divers scour the waters off Mayor’s Island in the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) in Alaminos City in Pangasinan province, to look for fragments of live coral that could still be nurtured at the ...

    • Experts push solutions for PH corals 

      (The Manila Times, August 31, 2017, on page B5)
      Marine biologists and experts in a recent forum put forward science-based solutions to address issues on protecting the country’s corals. Wilfredo Roehl Licuanan, in his talk entitled “Current Status of PH Coral Reefs and ...

    • Feasibility of farming hard corals 

      Alcala, Angel (Malaya, June 5, 2013, on page A5)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources proposes to farm hard or stony corals for reef restoration and livelihood, including selling farmed corals for income purposes. The idea appears attractive at first glance but ...

    • Guardians of the gulf 

      Barcia, Rhaydz (The Manila Times, June 7, 2018, on page A7)
      Every day, Rohniel Estevez, chief operating officer of Legazpi City’s Integrated Coastal Resource Management (ICRM), serves as guardian of the sea. Estevez and his crew–rescue diver Dabbie Olimpo, diver Christian Talde and ...

    • Hinatuan Mining coral garden project a success 

      (Manila Standard, July 24, 2020, on page A4)
      Hinatuan Mining Corp. (HMC), a subsidiary of Nickel Asia Corp. (NAC), has announced the success of its coral nursery project on the island of Hinatuan in Tagana-an, Surigao del Norte. The coral nursery initiative, designed ...

    • Hinatuan Mining declares success in 'Coral Gardening' 

      (BusinessMirror, July 27, 2020, on page B6)
      Hinatuan Mining Corp. (HMC) announces with pride the success of its coral nursery project in the island of Hinatuan, Tagana-an, Surigao del Norte. HMC is a subsidiary of Nickel Asia Corp. (NAC). “The coral nursery initiative, ...

    • HMC declares success in 'coral gardening' 

      (The Manila Times, July 27, 2020, on page B9)
      Nickel Asia Corp. (NAC) subsidiary Hinatuan Mining Corp. (HMC) has announced with pride the success of its coral nursery project in the island of Hinatuan, Tagana-an, Surigao del Norte. “The coral nursery initiative, ...

    • Hope for corals 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 28, 2018, on page A14)
      The campaign to build a coral nursery in the Town of Santa Cruz, Marinduque province, was started on Earth Day by the Coral Movement of the group Heirs of the World Inc. with help from the Santa Cruz Mayor Marisa Red ...

    • Is the DPWH killing coral reefs? 

      See, Aie Balagtas (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 10, 2017, on page A19)
      He might get into trouble for it, renowned marine biologist Wilfredo Licuanan himself admitted, but he just had to say it: “The No. 1 destroyer of coral reefs in the Philippines is the Department of Public Works and ...

    • 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 ...

    • PNP-Bataan moves to restore coral reefs 

      Supnad, Mar T. (Manila Bulletin, August 19, 2013, on page B-8)
      The Philippine National Police (PNP)-Bataan, led by provincial director Senior Supt. Audie Atienza, embarked on coastal protection by planting coral reefs along the coastal waters off this town in what they described as ...

    • 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 ...