Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "deforestation"

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    • Earth Day 2019: Protect our species 

      (The Manila Times, April 22, 2019, on page B4)
      Scientists point this massive decline to habitat destruction, exploitation and climate change as the driving forces for the loss of half of the world’s wild animal population. On to marine life, more than 650,000 marine ...

    • Mindoreños patrol for watershed protection 

      (The Manila Times, August 10, 2017, on page B6)
      Twenty-four community members from the municipalities of Naujan and Victoria in Oriental Mindoro attended the first training under the Bantay Gubat (forest warden) program conducted by the Haribon Foundation and funded by ...

    • Protecting the coast of Eastern Samar 

      Lagua, Benel D. (The Manila Times, March 10, 2017, on page B2-B3)
      Past supertyphoons Yolanda and Ruby have brought severe deforestation, and the mangrove forests in the province ha been damaged, needing rehabilitation. The mangrove will not only protect; it will restore the normal abundance ...

    • Saving nature is saving our future 

      Amante, Kitty (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • WWF: endangered species poached in protected areas 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, April 19, 2017, on page B8)
      Illegal poaching, logging and fishing of sometimes critically endangered species is taking place in nearly half of the world’s most protected natural sites, environmental campaigners WWF warned Tuesday. Species listed by ...