Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Name "Oceana Philippines"

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    • Amended Fisheries Code IRR signed 

      Domingo, Ronnel W. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 26, 2015, on page B3)
      Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala has signed the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Amended Fisheries Code, even as commercial fishers opposing the law held a fishers’ strike and held off supplies from ...

    • Cebu town reclamation hits another snag 

      Mayol, Ador Vincent (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 5, 2022, on page A10)
      The 235.8-hectare reclamation project in Consolacion town, Cebu, has hit another snag. The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) returned the municipality ...

    • Declare part of PH Rise ‘no take zone,’ Duterte urged 

      Andrade, Jeannette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 16, 2018, on page A3)
      Environmental groups on Thursday called on the government to exercise jurisdiction over the Philippine Rise by declaring part of it, the 17,000-hectare Benham Bank, as a “no-take” zone, where fishing and other human activity ...

    • DENR to reform existing policies to prevent oil spills 

      Bautista, Jane (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 8, 2023, on page A3)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is looking to reform existing policies to prevent oil spills as it recently held discussions with local shipowners to form a technical working group. “We need to ...

    • Ersatz Boracay in Manila Bay 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 10, 2020, on page A6)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources started dumping last week “white sand” on a portion of the Manila Bay beach, near the Baywalk strip along Roxas Boulevard, ostensibly as part of a “beach nourishment” ...

    • Fish have rights, too 

      Jimenez-David, Rina (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 3, 2018, on page A15)
      If it were only a matter of laws, we have more than enough of them to ensure the protection of our environment. What makes environmental protection so difficult, however, is that despite the plethora of international, ...

    • Fishers protest construction of sea wall in Cebu town 

      Mayol, Ador Vincent (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 30, 2022, on page A8)
      A group of fishermen has sought the help of an environment nongovernmental organization to address their concern over the construction of structures within the coastal easement zones in a village of Medellin town in northern ...

    • Fishers urged not to venture into Manila Bay, told it's 'dead' 

      Ramos, Mariejo; Subingsubing, Krixia (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 31, 2023, on page A3-A5)
      Local officials have been telling Edlyn Rosales that Manila Bay is already a dead body of water. Friends who otherwise meant well have told her the same, she said. But as for barangay officials who compared the 58-kilometer-wide ...

    • Kalikasan writ eyed against 'Manila Beach' 

      Subingsubing, Krixia (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 7, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) claims that the “white sand” being poured to create a beach on a stretch of Manila Bay’s rocky shore poses no harm to the bay’s ecosystem, but independent safety ...

    • Making fisheries 'sexy' 

      Honasan, Alya B. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 25, 2016, on page C2)
      The Visit of Alexandra Cousteau has thrust Oceana Philippines, the two-year-old local office of environmental organization Oceana, into the spotlight. Cousteau was the special guest at a media forum on the recent exploratory ...

    • Reclamation projects: Boom or bust? 

      Mayol, Ador Vincent; Fernandez-Brojan, Connie (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 22, 2022, on page A8)
      For many local governments around the country, reclamation projects can be their ticket to economic progress. According to lawyer Janilo Rubiato, Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) general manager and chief executive ...

    • Seabed quarrying 'crowding us out', say Manila Bay fisherfolk 

      Subingsubing, Krixia; Ramos, Mariejo (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 30, 2023, on page A6)
      Before daybreak, Edwin Rosales, 33, would set out for Manila Bay to find the best spots to cast his net for “alubaybay,” a variety of sardines and a major income-earner in his coastal village in Limay, Bataan province, a ...

    • A shark may have been killed for your lipstick 

      Honasan, Alya (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 3, 2017, on page C1-C5)
      Many women would “absolutely die” without lipstick, or so they say. But can you handle the idea that a shark—a majestic, ancient animal that has more to do with human life than people think—was probably killed so its liver ...

    • Solid waste management body being sued for 'negligence' 

      Enano, Jhesset O. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 28, 2021, on page A4)
      Conservation and environmental law groups seek to sue the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) and representatives of its member-agencies for “gross and persistent negligence” in the implementation of the ...

    • Spotlight shines on ocean heroes 

      Bunachita, Jose Santino (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 18, 2016, on page A9)
      Every day, Norlan Pagal would painstakingly push his wheelchair to the shore of his village in San Remegio town in northern Cebu, bring out his old pair of binoculars, and scan the waters of Tañon Strait.