Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Subject "carcasses"

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    • Baby dugong dies of plastic ingestion 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 18, 2019, on page A9)
      A sick baby dugong whose fight for recovery won hearts in Thailand and cast a spotlight on ocean conservation has died from an infection exacerbated by bits of plastic lining her stomach, officials said Saturday. "Mariam" ...

    • Dead dolphins wash up in France in record numbers 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 27, 2020, on page A7)
      hundreds of dead dolphins have been washing up on France’s Atlantic coast in such high numbers that local populations of the mammals are at risk, marine biologists say. The majority drowned in the nets of fishing trawlers. ...

    • Dead whale shark 

      Perias, Earvin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 18, 2018, on page A12)
      The Carcass of a whale shark or 'Butanding' lies at the Navotas Fish Port on Friday where it was brought after it was found by fishermen. The Measure of 1 meter in width and 5 meters in length.

    • Dolphins found dead with bullet wounds 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 24, 2013, on page A15)
      Two dolphins and a sea turtle with hack wounds were found dead in separate sections of the Lingayen beach on Friday. The first dolphin was recovered at the beach front near the Pangasinan capitol, said Westly Rosario, chief ...

    • An encounter with ‘Toothless’ in Albay 

      Mier, Ma. April (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 12, 2015, on page A16)
      The public viewing of Toothless, the rare megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios), was officially launched on March 3, in time with the celebration of World Wildlife Day. The preserved 15-foot male shark was put on display ...

    • Giant grouper found in Antique 

      Calawag, Flord Nicson (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 9, 2015, on page A8)
      A stranded seven-foot, 176-kilogram giant grouper, the largest reef-dwelling fish in the world, was found by a fisherman in the shore of Libertad town in Antique province on Wednesday. Jesie Cacam, a fisherman from Barangay ...

    • Injured dolphins land on Lingayen Gulf shores 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 28, 2015, on page A16)
      At least 17 injured bottlenose dolphins have been found beached in the last two days in the coastal areas of the Lingayen Gulf stretching from Alaminos City in Pangasinan province to Aringay town in La Union province. ...

    • Moby Dick' started fish cemetery in Pangasinan 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 30, 2018, on page A14)
      There are 38 reasons for marine lovers to visit the fish cemetery of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) research center at Barangay Binloc here. These are the 39 sea creatures, which died from illnesses ...

    • Rare shark found dead on Albay town shore 

      Mier, Ma. April (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 1, 2015, on page A18)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) gave the name “Toothless” to the 15-foot megamouth shark that was found dead on the shore of Barangay Marigondon in Pio Duran town in Albay province on Wednesday. ...

    • Revenge of the 'Pawikan': 5 dead after eating sea turtle meat 

      Gabieta, Joey A. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 23, 2013, on page A12)
      Five persons died while 153 others were taken ill after eating the meat of a sea turtle that was found dead on Aug. 17 in Arteche, a town in Eastern Samar. Marlon Gabril, a fisherman who found the sea turtle and later sold ...

    • Rising temperatures kill thousands of fish 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 7, 2012, on page A23)
      Thousands of fish are dying in central United States as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 38 degrees Celsius. About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed ...

    • Shark tales in RP : The good, the bad 

      Contreras, Volt (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 16, 2004, on page A1-A22)
      At first, the villagers of Barangay Namucon of Tigbauan town showed genuine concern for the giant fish when they saw it lying on their beach on Nov. 4, "heaving and suffering from what looked like a spear wound," according ...

    • UP's 'CSI' helps catch illegal wildlife traders 

      Enano, Jhesset O. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 26, 2019, on page A6)
      When officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) learned that some eateries in Barangay Pasil in Cebu City were selling steaming bowls of turtle stew, they first needed to make sure that the ...

    • Whale found dead 

      Santos, Dennis Jay (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 19, 2013, on page A8)
      A Female Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirotris) was found dead on Saturday afternoon, hours after coastal residents in Tagum City helped the stranded mammal swim back to sea. Tagum is some 50 kilometers away ...

    • Whale's death linked to failure to find food in over fished seas 

      Mallari, Delfin Jr (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 26, 2015, on page A10)
      Hunger could be the cause of death of a sperm whale that had been stranded in waters of Calauag town in Quezon province and environmentalists are linking the case to illegal and overfishing in the area. The area where the ...