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Colonizing the Spratlys, destroying our food and ecological balance

dc.contributor.authorAbesamis, Teresa
dc.coverage.spatialSpratlysen
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Chinaen
dc.coverage.spatialTanmenen
dc.coverage.spatialBolinaoen
dc.coverage.spatialScarborough Shoalen
dc.coverage.spatialWest Philippine Seaen
dc.coverage.spatialVietnamen
dc.coverage.spatialMalaysiaen
dc.coverage.spatialTaiwanen
dc.coverage.spatialBruneien
dc.coverage.spatialIndonesiaen
dc.coverage.spatialBolinaoen
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-20T05:37:31Z
dc.date.available2018-09-20T05:37:31Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-04
dc.identifier.citationAbesamis, T. S. (2017, January 4). Colonizing the Spratlys, destroying our food and ecological balance. BusinessWorld, pp. SI/6, SI/7.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/2232
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBusinessWorld Publishing Corporationen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Opinion&title=colonizing-the-spratlys-destroying-our-food-and-ecological-balance&id=138535en
dc.subjectterritorial watersen
dc.subjectdisputesen
dc.subjectecological balanceen
dc.subjectnavigationen
dc.subjectmilitary operationsen
dc.subjectmarine ecologyen
dc.subjectenvironmental protectionen
dc.subjecttourismen
dc.subjectUnited Nations Convention on Law of the Seaen
dc.subjectlaw of the seaen
dc.subjectinternational lawen
dc.subjectecologyen
dc.subjectinternational cooperationen
dc.titleColonizing the Spratlys, destroying our food and ecological balanceen
dc.typenewspaperArticleen
dc.citation.journalTitleBusinessWorlden
dc.citation.spageSI/6en
dc.citation.epageSI/7en
local.seafdecaqd.controlnumberBW20170104_SI/6en
local.seafdecaqd.extractAlthough the world, because of international media emphasis seems to see only “freedom of navigation” as the crucial issue on the South China Sea disputes, buried underneath all the occasional political noise on the militarization of the islands and illegal conversion and reclamation of reefs and shoals are gut issues of human and ecological survival. This consists of the little known fact that the Spratlys are the savings bank for important fish and invertebrates that supply our coastal waters with marine life, feeding us and our neighbors and protecting the ecological balance of our common marine environment. The giant clams, harvested from the Spratlys by destroying corals to get to them using propellers, were discovered in Tanmen by a Taiwanese entrepreneur who had prospered from the business of producing beads and handicraft from seashells. The businessman, Zhan Dexiong, then set up factories in Tanmen to produce objet d’art from carvings made from the giant clams.en
local.subject.personalNameMcManus, John
local.subject.personalNameZhan, Dexiong
local.subject.personalNameXi, Zin Ping
local.subject.personalNameDuterte, Rodrigo
local.subject.personalNameLawrence, Dune
local.subject.personalNameFan, Wenxin
local.subject.personalNameTalaue, Liana
local.subject.personalNameSta. Romana, Chito
local.subject.corporateNameUN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)en
local.subject.corporateNameNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)en
local.subject.corporateNameAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)en
local.subject.corporateNameBloombergen


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