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    • Galapagos fights to protect islands 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, February 9, 2018, on page B3)
      With its iconic giant tortoises, crested black iguanas, huge ocean manta rays and a veritable menagerie of other cool creatures, the Galapagos Islands are one of the most beautiful places you will probably never visit. Why ...

    • Galapagos hosts nursery for new tortoise species 

      (Manila Standard, February 2, 2017, on page B3)
      Crowded under a rock in the Galapagos archipelago, the baby tortoises wait for the sun to go down to leave their shelter. Nothing disturbs these eastern Santa Cruz tortoises (scientific name Chelondis donfaustoi), which ...

    • Garbage crisis hits, cleanup no use, Cimatu says 

      Araja, Rio N. (Manila Standard, December 6, 2019, on page A1-A2)
      The country, particularly Metro Manila, is facing a "garbage crisis," according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Secretary Roy Cimatu said clean-up operations were not enough to fix the garbage woes ...

    • Gentle piranha found in Pasig 

      Ardosa, Carlos (Manila Standard, May 28, 2014, on page A6)
      Las Farolas, which turned a year old in April, is also the sanctuary of a friendly variety of piranha called the Red Pacu or Red Belly Pacu, an omnivorous South American freshwater fish. Pacu (scientific name Colossoma ...

    • 'GG' fishing ban proposed 

      Araja, Rio (Manila Standard, October 19, 2015, on page A6)
      Because of overfishing of mackerel scada, popularly known as galunggong, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources will impose a fishing ban off Northern Palawan within Sulu Sea from Nov.15 to January next year. BFAR ...

    • Giant lapu-lapu spawners freed into Sarangani Bay 

      Gulle, Jimbo (Manila Standard, July 23, 2017, on page D1)
      Sarangani Bay is now the home of five king grouper spawners donated by Finfish Hatcheries Inc., the largest commercial fishing hatchery in the Philippines. Locally known as “lapu-lapu” or “kugtong,” the giant groupers were ...

    • Giant manta ray unhooked 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, July 17, 2019, on page A1-A2)
      A Giant manta ray with several fishing hooks caught below its eye appeared to ask two nearby divers for help in removing them, and then waited patiently for them to do so.

    • Go with the flow with your own koi pond: 'Kohaku, sanke and tancho' at your doorstep 

      (Manila Standard, May 4, 2019, on page B4)
      Koi carp ponds are becoming a must-have for Filipinos as people see how beautiful they look in their friends’ gardens, and want to have one for themselves.The appeal is easy to understand. Koi carp can live to be 40 or ...

    • Gomez slammed over 'tilapia' stocking 

      Fabunan, Sara Susanne D. (Manila Standard, June 2, 2018, on page A3)
      GreenPeace Philippines, a group that advocates for environment conservation, slammed Ormoc Mayor Richard Gomez’s action of stocking 20,000 tilapia fingerlings (St. Peter’s fish) in the protected Lake Danao, a move that may ...

    • 'Gone to hell': The battle to save Europe's oldest lake 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, July 4, 2021, on page 4B)
      Dimitar Pendoski marches to the end of a rickety walkway, skips around sunbathing youngsters, and sweeps back a tarpaulin protecting his empty lakeside restaurant, recently closed by officials under pressure from UNESCO. ...

    • Good work by Duterte on climate change 

      La Viña, Tony (Manila Standard, February 4, 2017, on page A5)
      This has been a good week for climate change in the Philippines. Finally, after months of uncertainty, the Philippine government has decided to move forward on the ratification of the Paris Agreement. This was decided in ...

    • Gordon wants strong PH capability in sea dispute 

      Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, July 4, 2018, on page A6)
      Senator Richard Gordon on Tuesday noted that unless the Philippines showed readiness to help itself by investing in building up a credible defense capability, nobody will help it in connection with the South China Sea ...

    • Gov't to boost troops in WPS 

      Requejo, Rey; Ramos- Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, December 23, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      The government has ordered the military to beef up its presence in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) following Chinese activities monitored near Pag-asa Island. In a statement Thursday, the Department of National Defense (DND) ...

    • Gov't urged to save its seas from overfishing 

      Araja, Rio N.; Pañares, Joyce P. (Manila Standard, June 8, 2013, on page A1-A2)
      At least 13 fishing grounds in the Philippines have been heavily fished and the declining stocks will force local fishermen to go beyond the country's boundaries toward the Malaysian and Indonesian seas to look for catch, ...

    • Gov't won't ban Chinese firms from PH projects; Sangley Airport on 

      Barcelo, Vito; Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, September 2, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      Malacañang said the country would not ban Chinese firms involved in reclamation activities in the South China Sea, and would not follow sanctions imposed by the United States against Chinese companies involved in construction ...

    • Govt allots P400-m for Yolanda-hit mangroves 

      Pañares, Joyce Pangco (Manila Standard, March 19, 2015, on page A6)
      The Aquino administration on Wednesday released an initial P400 million to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for their mangrove and beach forest development project for areas battered by disasters such ...

    • Govt eyes Korean help to put up seaweed farm 

      Domingo, Ferdie G. (Manila Standard, April 19, 2010, on page A2)
      The government plans to develop a P220-million seaweed farm in hundred-hectare site in Aurora, Quezon, using Korean technology to produce ethanol, an official said Sunday. The Science Department and Congressional Commission ...

    • Govt eyes roadmap for PH eel industry 

      Gonzales, Anna Leah (Manila Standard, February 25, 2015, on page B3)
      The government is looking at formulating an eel commodity roadmap to take advantage of the rising global demand for eels, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said Tuesday. “Eels, or igat as they are more known locally, ...

    • Govt sets 6-point laundry list for Boracay cleanup 

      Cruz, Maricel (Manila Standard, April 19, 2018, on page A6)
      The government has unveiled its list of deliverables within the six-month closure of Boracay, giving a clearer picture of what the island’s locals and tourists should expect by the end of the shutdown. Meanwhile, some “big ...

    • Green and go for Bay cleanup this Sunday 

      Araja, Rio N. (Manila Standard, January 26, 2019, on page A2)
      The Environment Department said Friday it is all systems go for the start of the rehabilitation of Manila Bay on Jan. 27. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu called the rehabilitation the “Battle for Manila Bay,” which would ...