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    • Waders in the Philippines: A world-wide quest continues 

      Haribon Foundation (The Manila Times, December 1, 2015, on page B8)
      Half a million migratory birds including 64 globally-threatened species travel through the Philippines every year from late September up to early April, most of them coming from as far as north of China, Russia, and the ...

    • Wang Yi: Safeguard stability and jointly overcome the challenges in SCS 

      (The Manila Times, September 8, 2020, on page A5)
      On Sept. 2, 2020, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Institute for South China Sea Studies jointly held the 1.5 track virtual international symposium themed “The South China Sea: From the Perspective of ...

    • Warmer oceans causing commercial fish shortage 

      Xinhua News Agency (The Manila Times, January 11, 2018, on page B5)
      Climate change is driving a collapse of the marine food chain, an Australian study published by the University of Adelaide on Wednesday has found. The study found that rising ocean temperatures was reducing the flow of ...

    • Waste management: Saving the Philippine islands, tourism and the environment 

      Palafox, Felino A. Jr. (The Manila Times, March 8, 2018, on page A5)
      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 ...

    • Water cube seen as green solution 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, February 5, 2022, on page B5)
      All Certified Equipment Trading Corp. (ACETC) is confident that its Water Cube will gain wider acceptance in the Philippines once the company finishes the testing of the product for storing water and harvesting rain water. ...

    • Waves for Water PH deploys over 4,000 water filtration systems 

      (The Manila Times, February 25, 2022, on page B11)
      Typhoon "Odette" (International Name "Rai") entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Dec. 14, 2021 and shortly intensified into a category 5 super typhoon across the Visayas and Mindanao. In just 28 hours, Odette ...

    • We help Protect the Environment 

      (The Manila Times, September 4, 2018, on page G4)
      Mangrove forests have extreme importance to the environment and mankind. They gave protection against tsunamis and hurricanes, and serve as home to a large variety of fish, crab, shrimp and other aquatic species. Despite ...

    • West PH Sea critical to US security 

      Sy Egco, Joel (The Manila Times, May 28, 2015, on page A1-A8)
      The situation in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) is critical to the national security interest of the United States, the White House has said. “The President [Barack Obama] has often talked about how critically ...

    • West Philippine sea in rough waters – WWF 

      (The Manila Times, May 19, 2015, on page B8)
      The dredging of coral reefs to build artificial islands in the West Philippine Sea has alarmed conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). In April 2013, poaching vessel F/V Min Long Yu destroyed 3,902 square ...

    • 'West Philippine Sea' appellation: Aquino's brainwashing trick, and a curse 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, June 9, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      Disregarding international conventions and practice, President Benigno Aquino 3rd in 2012, on his own, renamed as the "West Philippine Sea" a segment of the South China Sea. It is a term that would hobble our efforts to ...

    • WestMinCom asks fishing firms' help 

      Rimando, Antonio P. (The Manila Times, October 29, 2019, on page A7)
      The Western Mindanao Command ( WestMinCom) wants large fishing fleets here to be enlisted with naval reserves to help secure the vast southern Philippine sea waters against terrorists and pirates. WestMinCom chief Lt. Gen. ...

    • Wetlands for healing of nature and human well-being 

      Tolentino, Amado Jr (The Manila Times, December 18, 2021, on page A4-A5)
      Originally, wetlands (where water meets land), e.g., mangroves, rivers, lakes, estuaries, streams, meadows, mudflats, marshes, swamps, fishponds, rice paddies, etc. are known only for values and functions such as kidneys ...

    • Whale sharks shy away from dirty seawater, noise 

      Ugalde, Manny T. (The Manila Times, February 28, 2014, on page A6)
      The visitors that swam in the waters off this city may have stayed longer but the noise and dirty seawater could have turned them off, consequently drove them away to less hostile parts— they are nine gentle giants, whale ...

    • Whale strikes boat off Australian coast, man killed 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, October 1, 2023, on page B5)
      A man was killed and another was injured after a whale struck a boat off the coast of eastern Australia on Saturday, police said. The two men were thrown from the boat when it was hit at about 6 a.m. in the waters off La ...

    • Whales and dolphins have own cemetery too 

      Penones, Frank Jr. (The Manila Times, October 26, 2016, on page A7)
      Bula, Camarines Sur: Whales and dolphins here are assigned their own graveyard too. Dead sea mammals, which are collectively called cetaceans, have been allotted a burial place at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ...

    • What Duterte must get from China 

      Saludo, Ricardo (The Manila Times, October 18, 2016, on page A1-A5)
      It’s not sovereignty over the South China Sea (SCS) and the Spratlys, or any expanses of water or bits of rock and reef it wants to wangle from President Rodrigo Duterte. The Chinese know that, like them, no nation ever ...

    • When sea farming means conservation 

      Icamina, Paul M. (The Manila Times, June 14, 2009, on page A1-A2)
      Only three major exporting countries have no national management or regulatory measures regarding the sea cucumber: the Philippines, Malaysia and Micronesia. Other countries encourages sustainable sea cucumber fisheries ...

    • Where he stands: Duterte affirms arbitral ruling, rebukes China 

      (The Manila Times, September 25, 2020, on page A6)
      President Rodrigo Duterte surprised many nations, and maybe even himself, with his forthright and strong virtual address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 22. Mincing no words, the President ...

    • 'White beach' for people's mental health - Palace 

      Tolentino, Reina C.; Dela Cruz, Divina Nova Joy (The Manila Times, September 7, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      Setting up a “white beach” in Manila Bay would bring peace of mind to the people, according to Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. Roque defended the plan of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to repair ...

    • Why China is risking war with the US in SCS 

      Corpus, Victor (The Manila Times, May 17, 2018, on page A6)
      Why is China risking a major war, even a nuclear one, by deploying cruise missiles on South China Sea outposts? The US has warned that there will be consequences with this move by China. If the US launches a pre-emptive ...