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    • What you need to know about red tide 

      PN; Philippine Information Agency (PIA) (Panay News, December 13, 2015, on page 5)
      A fisherman in New Washington dared the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) personnel in the province: he will eat talaba, or oysters, in front of them to prove that those harvested from the town are not ...
    • Who is correct on ship collision? 

      (Panay News, June 19, 2019, on page 9)
      The majority of top-level government officials now echo the claim that it was just "little maritime accident" brown up by unnamed politicians. But some of them had earlier expressed logical opinions linking the Chinese ...
    • Who should be accused for Boracay mess? 

      (Panay News, July 4, 2018, on page 11)
      The very people who should be hauled to court for Boracay's environmental degradation are the following: (1) owners of hotels, resorts, restaurants, and other commercial establishments; (2) residents; (3) concerned barangay ...
    • Who's afraid of farming? 

      (Panay News, November 12, 2017, on page 8)
      As more and more people are opting to live in cities and would rather work in the comforts of air-conditioned offices instead of growing agricultural products and livestock under the searing heat of the sun, the country ...
    • Why Chinese fishermen are in the WPS 

      Carpio, Antonio T. (Panay News, April 26, 2021, on page 7-14)
      China claims that part of the West Philippine Sea (WPS) enclosed by the nine-dash line is a traditional fishing ground of Chinese fishermen. That would make about 80 percent of the Philippine exclusive economic zone (EEZ) ...
    • Why destroy mangroves for a jogging area? 

      Sologastoa, Glenda (Panay News, August 16, 2017, on page 1, 16)
      Just how serious is the damage that the expansion of the Iloilo Esplanade has wrought on mangroves at the Iloilo River? During a visit here on Aug. 8 and 9, Piñol said he was “bothered to see the construction of a pathway ...
    • Why I like eating fish 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, October 18, 2018, on page 8)
      Studies in the 1970s showed that Greenland Eskimos had a lower rate of heart disease than did other individuals living in Greenland at the same time. Analysis of dietary differences between the groups showed that the Eskimos ...
    • Why marine animals can't stop eating plastic 

      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Panay News, June 20, 2018, on page 16)
      Plastic doesn’t just look like food, it smells, feels and even sounds like food. In a recent interview about Blue Planet II, David Attenborough describes a sequence in which an albatross arrives at its nest to feed its ...
    • Why passengers of Iloilo-Guimaras boats do not use life jackets 

      (Panay News, August 6, 2019, on page 7)
      The unfortunate sea tragedy in the Iloilo Strait on Aug. 3 that claimed the lives of 31 people (as of yesterday) raised a lot of questions. The most prominent of these questions is about the essential lifejacket. Were there ...
    • Why remove Boracay green algae 

      (Panay News, May 6, 2018, on page 9)
      Every day many government workers are removing tons of green algae from the shores of Boracay. If it were true- as what hotel owners and the natives of the island believe that the green algae are a natural cleanser that ...
    • Why you shouldn't eat shellfish from Roxas yet 

      Mijares, Ralph John (Panay News, September 25, 2015, on page 3)
      Waters in this city have not yet been cleared of the red tide toxin, so it's best to avoid selling and eating shellfish harvested here for now, according to an aquaculturist. Rizalde Astrolabio of the City Agriculturist's ...
    • 'Wild, wild west': Only 38 of 1,552 Boracay firms follow gov't rules 

      ABS-CBN News (Panay News, May 30, 2018, on page B1)
      Only 38 out of 1,552 establishments in Boracay complied fully with business and environment rules, one of the officials leading the island's cleanup said Tuesday. Boracay was like the "wild, wild west," where some businessmen, ...
    • Will Boracay be in good hands after taskforce's exit on June 30? 

      (Panay News, June 18, 2022, on page 7)
      The shelf-life of the Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force (BIATF) will only be until this June 30. After that date, the rehabilitation of Boracay Island will be overseen by the municipal government of Malay, Aklan which has ...
    • Will Iloilo City sink or swim?: Treñas skeptical of study on rising sea levels 

      Tayona, Glenda (Panay News, November 12, 2019, on page 1-15)
      “Things like that should not be immediately accepted by anyone.” This is Mayor Jerry Treñas’ reaction to a report about this city possibly disappearing by 2050 due to rising sea levels. The study was conducted by Climate ...
    • WINFISH forum matches women fish processors with potential exports 

      (Panay News, August 8, 2017, on page B11)
      The National Network on Women in Fisheries in the Philippines, Inc. (WINFISH) recently held a fisheries women entrepreneurs forum at Amontay Beach Resort, Nasipip, Agusan del Norte. The was conducted in collaboration with ...
    • With sole regulator status: Tieza sees better water services when Boracay reopens this Oct. 

      ABS-CBN News (Panay News, October 6, 2018, on page B1)
      The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) said it expects more competition between the two water service providers in Boracay after TIEZA was recognized as the sole regulator for the service on the ...
    • Woman crosses Iloilo to Guimaras twice on paddleboard 

      Villa, Hazel P. (Panay News, June 13, 2022, on page 4-14)
      Early risers who take a walk or jog at the Iloilo River Esplanade in the last six months are now familiar with a woman standing daily on a standup and using a paddle to move through the water. Lucy Lynette Ponce Uygongco, ...
    • World Bank to boost funding for climate change projects 

      (Panay News, April 11, 2016, on page B1)
      The plan - which follows the landmark UN climate conference that yielded the Paris Agreement in December - calls for funding projects that would add 30 gigawatts of renewable energy to the global grid, which would power ...
    • 'World's first ocean wave-powered boat' currently built in Aklan 

      ABS-CBN News (Panay News, March 5, 2020, on page B1-B6)
      Before the year ends, the world will be seeing its first ocean wave-powered boat, a hybrid trimaran currently being built in Aklan. During a media event earlier, Department of Science and Technology (DOST) secretary Fortunato ...
    • World's fish consumption unsustainable, warns UN 

      Reuters (Panay News, July 27, 2018, on page B4)
      A third of the world’s oceans are overfished and fish consumption is at an all-time high, raising fears over the sustainability of a key source of protein for millions around the world, the United Nations warned in a report ...