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Cimatu lauds call for Boracay Authority
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has lauded President Rodrigo Duterte for calling Congress to pass a measure creating the Boracay Island Development Authority (BIDA) to sustain gains from the rehabilitation of the world-famous ...
- July 31, 2020
Antique's underwater beauty preems on Discovery Channel
Antique may not be the first province that comes to mind when one thinks of Western Visayas. With the world-famous Boracay Island in Aklan, culinary hotspot Iloilo and the Mango Capital of the Philippines, Guimaras, among ...
- March 23, 2022
Manila to tighten watch on West PH Sea
The Philippines will be able to keep a tighter watch on the West Philippines Sea (South China Sea or WPS) when a satellite launched by a country in Europe kicks off, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said ...
- July 24, 2019
BFAR Region 2 offers scholarships
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is offering an educational scholarship to assist the children of small-scale fisherfolk who are interested to pursue their college education. BFAR Region 2 Director ...
- February 9, 2015
Algae in France kills 2, closes 6 beaches
Six beaches around Saint-Brieuc in Brittany, France have been closed to the public due to unmanageable quantities of sea algae, which local campaign groups say may be linked to two recent deaths in the area. On July 6 an ...
- July 18, 2019
Maritime convulsion in the 'Asean' seas
At no other time in history do some Asean countries face several maritime challenges than during this second decade of the 21st century. All because of the uses of the South China (West Philippine) Sea and its resources – ...
- May 26, 2015
Toyota adopts 10-ha mangrove plantation area in Lian, Batangas
Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation (TMP) recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Local Government of Lian, Batangas to clean-up, rehabilitate ...
- October 27, 2020
Waste management: Saving the Philippine islands, tourism and the environment
What if waste management is integrated into the Philippine tourism economy? With the amount of waste that the country is generating, this industry if a goldmine opportunity. Imagine if the government and a handful of ...
- March 8, 2018
‘Quinta’, ‘Rolly’ leave P5-B agri damage
Agricultural damage and losses caused by Typhoon “Quinta” (international name: “Molave”) and Super Typhoon “Rolly” (“Goni”) reached P4.56 billion, data from the Department of Agriculture (DA) showed. Total volume of ...
- November 5, 2020
High seas treaty on allocating fish across jurisdiction
On Dec. 24, 2017, the UN General Assembly voted to convene a multi-year process to develop a treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity, now referred to as the Treaty on Biodiversity in ...
- June 11, 2022