Browsing Panay News by Subject "marine environment"
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AFP: Chinese 'fishermen' used vs PH in two ways
(Panay News,September 16, 2023 , on page 9-15)When they are not directly supporting the China Coast Guard (CCG) in blocking supplies to a key Philippine outpost in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), the Chinese maritime militia (CMM) posing as fishermen are harming the ... -
Agency gets advanced reef assessment tool
(Panay News,June 22, 2018 , on page 11-14)The University of the Philippines – National Institute of Physics (UP-NIP) in Diliman, Quezon City turned over a unit of Teardrop Platform to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region 6. Teardrop ... -
Antique, Misamis Oriental, N. Mindanao eyed as go-to dive sites
(Panay News,September 18, 2023 , on page 14)The Department of Tourism (DOT) is preparing Antique, Northern Mindanao and Misamis Oriental as the next go-to diving sites to sustain the Philippines’ standing as the leading dive destination in the region. Tourism secretary ... -
Capitol seeks to plant 10T mangroves today
(Panay News,May 19, 2018 , on page 3-14)The provincial government hopes to plant 10,000 mangrove propagules today in the municipalities of Leganes and Dumangas. Some 5,000 mangrove propagules are being targeted for planting in Barangay Bigke, Leganes and another ... -
'Coast Guard didn't act fast enough'
(Panay News,February 22, 2014 , on page 1-14)The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) failed to control the spread of bunker fuel in Estancia, Iloilo during the first two weeks of the oil spill, according to Karl Ignatius Young, president of Kuan Yu Global Technologies, Inc., ... -
Coastal cleanup not enough-CENRO
(Panay News,September 23, 2010 , on page 2)Cleanups alone cannot solve the problem on marine debris; we need to stop it at the source, stressed Engr. Noel Hechanova, the city environment and natural resources officer (CENRO). Hechanova said public awareness regarding ... -
Coastguard
(Panay News,August 6, 2019 , on page 6)Every time there is a sea disaster, we focus our attention to the coastguard. Are the expectations for it to do well equal to the powers it is vested with? The Philippine Coast Guard must enforce laws, promulgate and ... -
Coliform caused Boracay corals' mass die-off?
(Panay News,March 6, 2015 , on page 5)A cooperative suspected that the high coliform level in the waters in this island resort was causing mass coral die-off. A member of the Sankalikasan Producers Cooperative, Jose Rodriguez, said they have monitored two usual ... -
Conserving marine resources
(Panay News,October 17, 2017 , on page 8)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Region 6 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with two local government units in northern Iloilo (Carles and Concepcion) and other enforcement agencies to strengthen ... -
Freedivers for ocean conservation
(Panay News,March 1, 2020 , on page B6-B8)“It's quite a liberating experience to explore the sea in such an immersive way, not weighed down by heavy equipment, seeing firsthand how amazing, yet also so delicate, the underwater world is,” related Riza Ornos on her ... -
Illegal fishing threatens food security
(Panay News,September 14, 2010 , on page 6)Marine resources in Cebu are dwindling due to illegal fishing, threatening the province's food security, according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources 7 (BFAR-7). Aquaculturist II Nathaniel Lucero of the BFAR-7 ... -
Incentives would improve MPA protection efforts, experts say
(Panay News,June 29, 2019 , on page B10)The safeguarding of Philippine marine protected areas (MPAs) would improve if local communities were given incentives to protect these areas, several marine experts said on Monday. Human activities such as fishing were ... -
'Keep marine tourism intact'
(Panay News,December 4, 2015 , on page B2)Healthy marine ecosystems are critical to long-term and short-term development in marine tourism, experts said. World Wide Fund for Nature International Global Shark Program leader Andy Cornish made this point during the ... -
Legarda backs Anini-y coral reef restoration
(Panay News,August 19, 2013 , on page 7)The bayanihan spirit is important to "restore the vibrancy of our marine ecosystem." This was Ilongga senator Loren Legarda's message, delivered by former Antique governor Sally Perez, during the inauguration and blessing ... -
Making our seas sustainable
(Panay News,September 28, 2018 , on page 8)It is hoped that today’s meeting of governors of the provinces sharing the bounties of the Visayan Sea would be able to come up with doable plans to curb exploitative commercial fishing and destructive fishing practices ... -
Marine env't protection a top concern-Palace
(Panay News,May 6, 2019 , on page 8)Malacañang said the protection of marine environment in the West Philippine Sea was one of the top concerns of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo made the remark after the ... -
Oil spill victims seek court help
(Panay News,January 21, 2014 , on page 2-14)Oil spill victims in Estancia town charged the government-owned Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) and the National Power Corp. (Napocor) demanding over P300 million in compensation and damages. ... -
Plastic
(Panay News,June 8, 2018 , on page 8)Plastic waste prevention and the genuine enforcement of best practices in ecological solid waste management sans incineration and open burning is the way to go to tackle the plastic scourge that has now become a global ... -
Sandfish: expensive, endangered, and ecologically essential
(Panay News,May 30, 2020 , on page 13)Sandfish, or Holothuria scabra, is one of the most threatened tropical sea cucumbers because of its high price, reaching up to $1,600 per kilogram (approximately P80,800) when processed and dried into trepang or beche-de-mer ... -
Save our oceans
(Panay News,May 19, 2018 , on page 8)Oceans have absorbed about a third of global carbon dioxide emissions, causing acidification. This has also resulted in coral bleaching. Ocean acidification is causing irreversible damage to coral reefs. With global warming ...