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U.S. pays PH P87-M compensation for warship reef damage
For the damage caused to Tubbataha Reef by the grounding of a United States Navy ship two years ago, the Philippines received 87,033,570.71 or nearly $ 2 million from the US government as compensation. In a statement issued ...
- February 19, 2015
Adventures with Tubbataha’s mama ranger
The water is—in the words of Yvette Lee, Discovery Fleet Philippines VP for operations, director of marketing and media affairs, and a published underwater photographer—“parang taho,” smooth and glassy and with nary a ...
- June 17, 2017
Great escape to El Nido
Hollywood actress Rachel Weisz, while shooting for Bourne Legacy, called this archipelagic town as the “Emerald City” and “paradise island”. But for us Filipinos, we simply call it the “World’s Best Island” based on the ...
- September 30, 2020
Tubbataha patrols
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has stepped up patrols at the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park off the main land mass of Palawan as it sent a patrol boat and additional personnel to the area with the diving season underway. ...
- March 19, 2015
Save Agusan Marsh
In 2008, 34 international companies joined an initiative of the Conference of Parties to the UN-Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and committed to implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects that would ...
- October 3, 2010
Time running out of Great Barrier Reef
Time is running out for Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, with climate change set to wreck irreversible damage by 2030 unless immediate action is taken, AFP reports according to the marine scientists. In a report ...
- March 7, 2014
Climate-oriented dev't to save millions from poverty
More than 100 million people from Asia Pacific countries including the Philippines may fall into extreme poverty by 2030 without climate-oriented development in the region, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission ...
- December 2, 2016
Phl gets climate change aid from Germany
The German government has committed an additional €35 million to fund the Philippines’ climate change adaptation projects, citing the country’s vulnerability to the effects of global warming. German Ambassador Gordon Kricke ...
- June 2, 2018
Fisherfolk receive dive training to monitor protected seas
Leaders of a local fishing community, including community pastor Ronalyn Rivera, earned an open water diver certification in a scuba training geared towards the monitoring of marine resources and protected areas in Lanuza ...
- June 1, 2017