The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is already verifying reports that swarms of Chinese ships anchored in Philippine-claimed areas in the South China Sea are dumping human waste there, a department official said on Wednesday. US-based geospatial imagery firm Simularity, Inc. earlier reported that Chinese vessels have been dumping raw sewage into the Spratly and Paracel Islands. The DENR has already coordinated with the Philippine Coast Guard to verify the correctness of the report, Environment Undersecretary Benny D. Antiporda told a televised news briefing.

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