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Earth Day 2019: Protect our species
Scientists point this massive decline to habitat destruction, exploitation and climate change as the driving forces for the loss of half of the world’s wild animal population. On to marine life, more than 650,000 marine ...
- April 22, 2019
China to patrol disputed sea
China will conduct its "routine" fishery patrols in the disputed Kalayaan (Spratly) Islands and Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) amid tensions with its neighbors over the ownership ...
- February 26, 2013
Experts: PH should assert position on WPS
Security experts said on Wednesday that the Philippine government must formulate a national strategy asserting the country's position on the West Philippine Sea (WPS). "This national strategy is so important for us to ...
- August 25, 2022
BFAR: P100M alotted for salt production
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) claimed that it allotted P100 million for salt production last year. "Last year, BFAR has set in motion a P100-million Development of the Salt Industry Project (DSIP) ...
- August 30, 2022
Filipino fisherman chased by China Coast Guard
Filipino fisherman Arnel Satam guns the motor of his tiny wooden boat as he makes a dash for the shallow waters of Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea, with Chinese coast guard speedboats in hot pursuit. In ...
- September 25, 2023
Japan seafood exporters get emergency relief
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Monday a 20.7-billion yen ($141-million) emergency fund to help exporters hit by China's ban on Japanese seafood over the release of treated radioactive wastewater from ...
- September 6, 2023
Know your marine assets and potentials (Last of 2 parts)
From the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization’s (FAO) data bank researchers can see the huge potential of the Asean members’ ocean, mangroves and coral/reef resources. The Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia ...
- September 25, 2017
China delaying sea code – Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday slammed China for delaying the passage of the Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China (West Philippine) Sea and vowed to discuss the issue with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing ...
- August 9, 2019
PH imports 93% salt needs - Agri group
An agricultural group on Friday said that the country imports 93 percent of its salt requirements of 550,000 metric tons from China and Australia with the "dead local salt industry." In a radio interview, Philippine Chamber ...
- August 27, 2022
PH to protest China island 'militarization'
The Philippines will file a diplomatic protest against China if it is proven that there was “militarization” in the Kagitingan (Fiery Cross) Reef, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Monday. In a news briefing after ...
- January 9, 2018