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Boy, 8, gets int'l award for saving 400-kg dolphin
An eight-year-old boy from Mindoro was conferred an award by an international conservation group for saving a beached dolphin on the coast of San Teodoro in Oriental Mindoro last September 13. Carl Andrei Leuterio, a ...
- September 15, 2010
Mapping exercise to protect coral reefs
With this year's celebration of International Year of Biodiversity, conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature-Philippines (WWF-Philippines) and the Davao Gulf Management Council (DGMC) unveiled a complete mapping of ...
- June 15, 2010
Clean-up Result
The waters of this coastal town, also called Salinas, is now 95 percent oil spill free, and that the slick-struck fishing villages are getting back on their feet with the development, the municipal government said Wednesday. ...
- August 15, 2013
Volunteers mobilized for coastal cleanup
Filipinos are urged to participate in the annual International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) this year's drive which involved 600,000 volunteers in picking up more than 6 million pound (lbs) of trash over 20,000 miles of coastlines ...
- September 11, 2012
BFAR implements 3-month ban on tuna fishing in Davao Gulf
The government has started the implementation of a three-month closed fishing for tuna in Davao Gulf to protect the fish species at vulnerable stage in their life cycle, particularly during the spawning season. This is the ...
- June 3, 2015
Museum Urges 'Lolong' Taxidermy Preservation
The National Museums of the Philippines (NMP) yesterday requested the Bunawan local government of Agusan del Sur to bring the skin and skull of crocodile 'Lolong' to Metro Manila for preservation through taxidermy. Protected ...
- March 21, 2013
'Lolong' died of lung disease
A serious lung disease may have caused Lolong's death, initial findings from a necropsy performed on the giant saltwater crocodile showed. Citing the preliminary report submitted by a team of veterinarians and biology ...
- February 22, 2013
Fishing resumes
The three-month sardine fishing ban in the waters off Zamboanga had been lifted by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), which noted an improvement in the volume of sardine production during the closed ...
- March 3, 2013
Guidebook on coral reef protection launched
Local government units (LGUs) and fisherfolk in the Philippines, which encompasses the Coral Triangle Region, known as the world's center of marine biodiversity, will find a useful guide to monitor marine protection in a ...
- July 1, 2010
LGUs move to integrate climate policies
Local governments have integrated climate change policies in their protected landscape and eco-town projects in disaster-prone areas in Marikina City and Rizal. In a multisectoral project together with the Southeast Asian ...
- December 15, 2016