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S. Asia most dangerous for sea turtles - study
(The Manila Times,September 30, 2011 , on page A6)The waters around India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are home to the world’s most endangered sea turtles, according to a study released Thursday aimed at setting a blueprint for global conservation. While it was well known ... -
S. Cotabato to dismantle illegal fish cages
(The Manila Times,February 5, 2014 , on page A6)The provincial government of South Cotabato will start next week the dismantling of illegal fish cages along the critical Lake Sebu as it embarks on an intensive rehabilitation program for the endangered lake. Siegfred ... -
S. Korean airlines ban shark fin as cargo
(The Manila Times,June 21, 2013 , on page B7)South Korea’s two largest airlines, Korean Air and Asiana, said on Thursday they had both decided to ban shark fin from their cargo flights as part of a growing global campaign against the Asian delicacy. Korean Air, which ... -
'Sagip Saka' IRR is DA's framework
(The Manila Times,October 28, 2019 , on page A3)To effectively raise the incomes of farmers and fisherfolk, Sen. Francis Pangilinan, author and proponent of the Sagip Saka Act, said its implementing rules and regulations (IRR) would serve as the framework for the ... -
Salim (aka MVP) Razon, Ongpin's project behind Aquino's discord with China: Part 1: Has Carpio been their lawyer?
(The Manila Times,May 10, 2021 , on page A1-A5)Concealed by the flag-waving histrionics of Antonio Carpio and Albert del Rosario is a classic case of oligarchic rule. What triggered the Aquino 3rd regime’s conflict with the Chinese that led to the unprecedented Philippine ... -
Salmon farming in Dubai thrives
(The Manila Times,November 20, 2019 , on page B6)From a control room in the middle of Dubai’s desert, Norway’s sunrises and sunsets and the cool currents of the Atlantic are recreated for the benefit of thousands of salmon raised in tanks despite searing conditions ... -
Salvage ops on US ship starts today
(The Manila Times,February 18, 2013 , on page A7)After over a month of preparations, the long- delayed actual salvage operation for the minesweeper USS Adventure, which got stuck at the Tubbataha Reef, will finally push through, according to a Philippine Coast Guard ... -
Sarangani Bay marks 24th year as protected area
(The Manila Times,April 18, 2020 , on page B2)Sarangani Bay, one of the country’s richest bodies of water and home to the Philippine tuna industry, recently celebrated its 24th year as a protected seascape. To mark the occasion, the Department of Environment and Natural ... -
Sarangani rolls out P 103-M watershed rehab project
(The Manila Times,April 10, 2019 , on page D3)The provincial government of Sarangani recently rolled out a multi-million-peso rehabilitation project of the 7.9-hectare Saub watershed ecosystem in Maitum town. Dubbed as Watershed Ecosystem Rehabilitation and Flood Risk ... -
Sardine fishing banned in R-9 until December
(The Manila Times,November 18, 2019 , on page A5)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will lift its three-month ban on sardine-fishing in conservation areas of the Zamboanga Peninsula on December 1, according to a top official of the agency. BFAR Region ... -
Sardines catch up again, PSA report shows
(The Manila Times,December 20, 2022 , on page A10)The species composition in the waters of Fisheries Management Area 7 (FMA-7) has significantly changed in the past two decades based on the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data 2002-2020. In 2002, the dominant marine ... -
Saving biodiversity at Verde Island Passage
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,October 21, 2018 , on page A18)Casting a fishing line with a coral sinker and a plastic-bottle reel, children as young as 8 years old catch their next meal from the pebbled shore of Barangay San Andres here. Most of the women are at home, raising hogs ... -
Saving Manila Bay
(The Manila Times,September 11, 2020 , on page A8)The Manila Bay is beautiful as it was and is. Yet it is now enshrouded by a gray haze from an overpopulated city and streets, leaving this once remarkable expanse as a passing memory for us to long for. Its once clean ... -
Saving nature is saving our future
(The Manila Times,December 8, 2016 , on page B5)In the next 15 to 25 years, our children may only learn about the once staple Philippine fish talakitok and maya-maya in science books, or perhaps in museums. These fish species, along with at least 10 others in the ... -
Saving people's lives is part of a fisherman's calling
(The Manila Times,September 26, 2012 , on page A7)Thrust into the limelight by the plane that crashed into the waters girding his hometown and took the lives of Interior secretary Jesse Robredo, pilot Captain Jessup Bahin-ting and flight student Kshitiz Chand, a Masbateño ... -
Saving Philippine coral reefs
(The Manila Times,September 23, 2023 , on page A4-A5)As defined and differentiated, coral is a live animal while a reef is a physical structure. Reefs are the habitat of corals which have been erected through the secretions of coral polyps over many generations. Reef-building ... -
Saving the sardine from warming seas
(The Manila Times,December 19, 2022 , on page A10)Couple Romeo de Luna, 62, and Elvira de Luna, 59, of Sitio Tambac, Maonon village in Ligao City survived daily through fishing within the Ticao-Burias Pass, the second-largest seascape in the Philippines. The couple, both ... -
SC dismisses writ of kalikasan case
(The Manila Times,September 4, 2019 , on page A7)The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday dismissed the writ of kalikasan plea on the disputed areas in the West Philippine Sea after the fishermen who filed the petition withdrew the case following revelations that their signatures ... -
Science points to the sea as new source of global warming
(The Manila Times,August 27, 2013 , on page B7)Ocean that grow more acidic through man's fossil fuel burning emissions, can amplify global warming by releasing less of a gas that helps shield Earth from radiation, study said on Sunday (Monday in Manila). And the authors ... -
Scientists sound alarm over ocean acidification
(The Manila Times,October 9, 2014 , on page B6)Ocean acidification has risen by a quarter since pre-industrial times as a result of rising carbon emissions, casting a shadow over the seas as a future source of food, scientists warned on Wednesday. In the past two ...