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    • Community-based project raises farmers, fishers income 

      Galvez, James Konstantin (The Manila Times, March 6, 2014, on page B2)
      More than 11,000 farmers and fisher folk around the country have seen their productivity increase and their incomes rise thanks to a community-based participatory research program initiated by the Bureau of Agricultural ...

    • Concern raised on BFAR Fisheries Office Order 

      (The Manila Times, April 24, 2021, on page A6)
      International non-government organization Oceana urges the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to recall its Fisheries Office Order No. 10, series of 2021 because it hampers the participation of local government ...

    • Confronting the new climate reality in Asia and the Pacific 

      Zahedi, Kaveh (The Manila Times, September 24, 2019, on page A7-A8)
      In less than 10 days world leaders will be gathering at the United Nations in New York for the Climate Action Summit. Their goal is simple, to increase ambition and accelerate action in the face of a mounting climate ...

    • Conservationists slam Australia shark policy as more killed 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, September 25, 2018, on page B7)
      Conservationists on Monday slammed the baiting and killing of sharks at a popular Great Barrier Reef tourist spot after two swimmers were attacked, saying the policy was brutal and indiscriminate. Queensland state authorities ...

    • Containing the slick 

      (The Manila Times, September 4, 2006, on page A1)
      A flotilla of boats lays out booms in this section of Guimaras Island to keep the oil that has leaked from a sunken tanker from contaminating the beaches. In the town of Nueva Valencia food packages to be distributed to ...

    • Convert Pag-asa into a tourist resort 

      Dulay, Dodo (The Manila Times, April 23, 2019, on page A5)
      Since the Chinese are profiting from the natural resources within our exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the West Philippine Sea by mass harvesting giant clams in Scarborough Shoal and in some instances, off the shores of ...

    • Coordinating body for PH marine ecosystem pushed 

      (The Manila Times, May 10, 2016, on page B7)
      A De La Salle University (DLSU) professor proposes the establishment of a coordinating body in the Philippines that will make sure coastal ecosystems in the country are healthy in order to help combat the effects of climate ...

    • Coral bleaching threatens marine life 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, January 5, 2023, on page A1-A9)
      Fish that have lost food due to mass coral bleaching are getting into more unnecessary fights, causing them to expend precious energy and potentially threatening their survival, new research said Wednesday. With the future ...

    • Coral damage blamed on firm 

      Adlaw, Jerry N. (The Manila Times, September 9, 2015, on page A7)
      A Coal-Fired power plant project located in Maasim town, Sarangi province is under fire for allegedly causing the destruction of coral reefs. Sr. Susan Bolanio, of the Oblates of Notre Dame Hesed Foundation Inc., a ...

    • Coral transplant raises Barrier Reef survival hopes 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, November 27, 2017, on page A8)
      Coral bred in one part of the Great Barrier Reef was successfully transplanted into another area, Australian scientists said on Sunday, in a project they hope could restore damaged ecosystems around the world. In a trial ...

    • Cordillera farmers get P700-M agri aid 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, September 24, 2019, on page A5)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has provided P700.44 million- worth of project assistance to 42 farmers' associations and cooperatives in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) as part of its effort to increase ...

    • Countries should unite vs sea militarization 

      Reyes, Dempsey (The Manila Times, June 6, 2018, on page A3)
      Countries in Asia should “band together” in voicing out their concerns against China’s militarization of the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, said Tuesday. “I think what should ...

    • Court ends hearings on sea row 

      Valente, Catherine S. (The Manila Times, December 1, 2015, on page A3)
      The Philippine government is optimistic of getting a favorable ruling from the international tribunal currently deliberating on the complaint filed by the Philippines against China over disputed territories in the West ...

    • Court gives IBP ultimatum in writ of kalikasan case 

      Canlas, Jomar (The Manila Times, July 17, 2019, on page A2)
      The Supreme Court has given an ultimatum to Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) lawyers to explain issues of fraud allegedly committed in the South China (West Philippine) Sea marine environment case. During deliberations ...

    • Critically-endangered turtles saved 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (The Manila Times, October 20, 2015, on page A7)
      Environment protection officials in Palawan rescued over the weekend at least 979 rare and critically endangered turtles that were supposed to be sold in the Chinese black market. The turtles were confiscated from the ...

    • Cruise ship runs aground in Sulu sea 

      Jacinto, Al (The Manila Times, January 15, 2019, on page A7)
      A cruise ship ran aground in the Sulu Sea after hitting a coral bed about 15 nautical miles off Cagayancillo Island near Palawan province, the Maritime Bulletin reported on Monday. It said MV Forever Lucky was sailing to ...

    • Cuisia: ‘US diplomat told me Chinese would leave Panatag’ 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, May 14, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      Jose Cuisia, our ambassador to the US during the Aquino 3rd regime, said in a television interview the other day that the Chinese had agreed to leave Scarborough Shoal in June 2012 together with Philippine vessels. How did ...

    • Cultured ‘green food’ developed for fish growers 

      (The Manila Times, August 2, 2018, on page B6)
      Although defatted soybean meal is the most common, low-cost food for fish, it is not the natural diet for them because it lacks key nutritional compounds. Besides plankton, the natural food for fish is algae that an ongoing ...

    • Customs sues coral consignee 

      (The Manila Times, June 2, 2011, on page A7)
      The Bureau of Customs said that they are filing cases today before the Department of Justice against the consignee of an illegal shipment of corals in the country. Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez said consignee ...

    • Cyclocheilichtyes schoppeae 

      (The Manila Times, June 3, 2013, on page 1)
      This species is endemic to Palawan, and could be found in Abungan River, Taytay to the Babuyan River in Puerto Princesa, Palawan province. The population of Cyclocheilichtyes schoppeae is being threatened by the continuous ...