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    • 60% of PHl beaches unsafe due to fecal coliform levels – EMB-DENR 

      GMA News (The Daily Guardian, May 29, 2018, on page 12)
      The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB-DENR) reported that the amount of fecal bacteria found in 60 percent of the country's recreational waters exceeded safe levels, GMA 7 news program "24 Oras" reported on Friday. ...
    • Antique rivers tainted with coliform 

      Villavert, Vicente W. (The Daily Guardian, June 4, 2018, on page 2-15)
      San Jose, Antique – Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu ordered the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) and the Community Environment and Natural Resources ...
    • Communities pollute coastal waters 

      Santiagudo, Emme Rose (The Daily Guardian, April 4, 2019, on page 1-14)
      An estimated 17, 991 kilos of plastic and residual wastes were collected during the city government’s “One Time Big Time” coastal cleanup on March 30, 2019, based on a report of City Environmental and Natural Resources ...
    • Contractor rapped for destroying mangroves 

      Cadagat, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, July 5, 2010, on page B2)
      A beach resort owner is riling against a contractor who uprooted mangrove trees along Purok Aning in Brgy. Pahanocoy here. Resort owner Aaron Sorbito accused contractor Andres "Andy" Taculod of violating environmental laws ...
    • Dead sea turtle with Taiwan metal tag found off Negros Occodental 

      GMA News (The Daily Guardian, June 28, 2018, on page 3-14)
      A fisherman in Negros Occidental found a dead hawksbill sea turtle with a tracking device on the back and Taiwan metal tags on both of its hind flippers. Quoting the fisherman who found the dead turtle, Mavee Ponciano, ...
    • DENR head leads meeting on Antique river, creek 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI (The Daily Guardian, April 1, 2019, on page 13)
      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy A. Cimatu and Senator Loren Legarda led the meeting on the Malandog River and Bagumbayan Creek Rehabilitation Project in Antique Provincial Capitol, ...
    • Endangered green sea turtle returns home 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI; Community Environment and Natural Resources (The Daily Guardian, February 7, 2019, on page 13)
      After a six-month rehabilitation, a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) was released back to its habitat through the efforts of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in close coordination with the Wildlife ...
    • Expert says mangroves need 50 years to recover 

      Pillado, Christian; Solas, Robert; Tolentino, Justine; Yanoc, Stan (The Daily Guardian, December 19, 2017, on page 3)
      “We are talking about 50-year old mangroves, so if you’re going to talk about restoration to its original state, then we need approximately 50 years also.” This was the assessment of Dr. Resurreccion Sadaba, a member of ...
    • Man convicted for cutting mangroves 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI; Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO)-Negros Occidnetal (The Daily Guardian, February 1, 2019, on page 4)
      A resident of Barangay, Suay, Himamaylan City in Negros Occidental pleaded guilty of the environmental crime and was sent to prison by the Regional Trial Court Branch 56. Alfredo Cordero was the subject of a complaint filed ...
    • Worms attack mangroves in region 

      Angelo, Francis Allan L. (The Daily Guardian, September 28, 2010, on page 1-5)
      Worms of a certain type of moth is feeding on mangroves in Western Visayas, according to environment officials. Bernabe Garnace, Community Environment and Natural Resources Office chief, said they noticed the larvae or ...