Browsing Panay News by Subject "marine ecologists"

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    • 3 turtle weaklings released in Boracay 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI; PN (Panay News, June 6, 2019, on page 9)
      Three turtle weaklings under rehabilitation were recently released off the shores in Boracay Island, Malay, Aklan. The local government returned two Olive Ridleys (Lepidochelys olivacea) and one Hawksbill (Eretmochelys ...

    • Batongbacal: Filipino scientists seeded giant clams, China stole it 

      ABS-CBN News; PN (Panay News, April 27, 2019, on page 8-10)
      A maritime affairs expert on Friday said Filipino scientists seeded giant clams in Scarborough Shoal in the late 1980s, only for Chinese fishermen to steal it decades later. Jay Batongbacal, director of the University of ...

    • Boracay, a turtle’s paradise, says DENR 

      PN (Panay News, February 16, 2019, on page 9-10)
      Slowly but surely, all the rehabilitation efforts being done by the government in the island of Boracay is paying off. Turtles are heading back to their nesting grounds here. Recently, a total of 142 Olive ridley (Lepidochelys ...

    • In hot water: Study says warming may reduce sea life by 17% 

      Associated Press (AP) (Panay News, June 15, 2019, on page B8)
      The world's oceans will likely lose about one-sixth of their fish and other marine life by the end of the century if climate change continues on its current path, a new study says. Every degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) ...

    • In South Africa, great white sharks threatened 

      Associated Press (AP) (Panay News, August 24, 2016, on page 13)
      On the edge of a boat off this coastal village, Michael Rutzen stubs his cigarette into a soda can and stares pensively out to sea. He has free-dived with great white sharks for nearly 20 years, and he never known it to ...

    • Starving seabirds 'full of plastic' 

      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Panay News, June 25, 2018, on page 7)
      New footage of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on wildlife has been captured by a BBC team. Seabirds are starving to death on the remote Lord Howe Island, a crew filming for the BBC One documentary Drowning in ...

    • Thai marine biologist pleads for dugong conservation plan 

      Associated Press (AP) (Panay News, October 5, 2019, on page 9)
      A top marine biologist has urged Thailand’s government to speed up conservation plans for the dugong, an imperiled sea mammal, after their death toll for the year in Thai waters has already climbed to a record 21. Thon ...

    • Whale dies from eating more than 80 plastic bags 

      PN; The Guardian (Panay News, June 18, 2018, on page 8)
      A whale has died in southern Thailand after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags, with rescuers failing to nurse the mammal back to health. The small male pilot whale was found barely alive in a canal near the border with ...