Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "ecosystems"

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    • 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 ...

    • DENR anticipates Sibugay Wetland Nature Reserve recognition 

      (The Manila Times, July 6, 2022, on page B13)
      The Sibugay Coastal Wetlands (SCW) will be renamed Sibugay Wetland Nature Reserve (SWNR) as the Philippines anticipates its inclusion in the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance when contracting parties meet ...

    • 'Eco-rangers' train at Naujan Lake 

      Franco-Abanador, Rain Rhymes (The Manila Times, January 13, 2015, on page B8)
      Did you know that the science of climate change start with the sun? What have you done for the planet today? These are two of the questions I’ve encountered during my four-day “Eco-Ranger Training Workshop” last year at ...

    • Ecobricks movement gaining ground in PH 

      Gajate, Stanley Buenafe (The Manila Times, June 21, 2018, on page B6)
      The use of Ecobricks is gaining ground in the Philippines with a handful of green advocates believing it could help the country reduce plastic pollution, especially in water bodies. “In the beginning, it was more like for ...

    • Great Barrier Reef a $42B asset 'too big to fail' - study 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, June 27, 2017, on page B4)
      Australia's under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver is "too big to fail", a study said Monday. Using economic modeling, it said the reef ...

    • Living in harmony with nature 

      Constantino, Czarina (The Manila Times, December 15, 2015, on page B8)
      This was the theme of the recent Haribon visit to Sitio Pangotloan, Barangay Mahabang Lalim, General Nakar, Quezon Province, participated in by eight members who braved the stormy weather to immerse in the community and ...

    • Managing Boracay as ancestral land and as protected landscape 

      Contreras, Antonio (The Manila Times, June 7, 2018, on page A4-A5)
      The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) through Undersecretary David Erro, perhaps in its desire to please the President who wants to convert the entire Boracay island into a land reform area, has boldly announced that ...

    • Maranaos oppose Lake Lanao reclammation 

      Jannaral, Julmuniri (The Manila Times, May 28, 2018, on page A7)
      The Maranaos of Lanao del Sur are opposed to any expansion of the shores of the Lake Lanao in Marawi City as a reclamation area where tons of war debris as filling materials would be dumped. Limnologists or experts on the ...

    • PH, UNDP implement program on climate change 

      (The Manila Times, March 8, 2016, on page A2)
      The Philippines moved to take concrete action to tackle climate change through a new program that will ensure the integration of disaster risk reduction and sustainable development in development plans and programs of the ...

    • Protest staged vs new fisheries policy 

      Galvez, James Konstantin; Badilla, Nelson (The Manila Times, September 3, 2015, on page 7)
      Fisherfolk from different provinces trooped to Manila on Wednesday to hold one of several expected “fish holidays” as part of protest actions against the decision of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to ...

    • Saving biodiversity at Verde Island Passage 

      Cinco, Maricar (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 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 ...

    • USAid celebrates marine biodiversity program achievements 

      (The Manila Times, June 5, 2017, on page C6)
      Officials from the US Embassy in the Philippines joined Philippine government and project partners to celebrate the conclusion of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAid) Ecosystems Improved for ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...