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'Let the corals recover’: Ban on Boracay water sports activities mulled
Diving and other water sports activities in this famed beach destination must be regulated, according to the Environment department. A study that the DENR conducted showed that Boracay’s coral reefs have been degrading due ...
- October 6, 2018
Mayor seeks PNoy help over 8-year-old spill
It was eight years ago when the oil tanker “M/T Solar I” sank off Nueva Valencia town on August 11, 2006, spilling one-fourth of its two million liters of bunker oil cargo, but some of the residents adversely affected have ...
- August 7, 2014
DOT gets ready for Boracay opening
Less than 200 tourism establishments in Boracay were so far able to meet the requirements set by the government’s interagency rehabilitation task force overseeing the cleanup of the popular island resort. “As of June 15 ...
- July 9, 2018
'Clean up waste or risk getting closed'
President Rodrigo Duterte ordered operating near the Manila Bay to observe environmental rules by installing water treatment facilities or risk being closure. In a speech during the Barangay Summit on Peace and Order at ...
- January 11, 2019
'Help displaced Boracay residents'
Vice Mayor Abram Sualog appeals to the inter-agency group tasked to restore Boracay to find a relocation site for displaced island residents. Sualog was referring to locals whose houses were built on Boracay’s wetlands and ...
- April 16, 2018
Pollution causes algal bloom
An Aklanon government scientist insisted that pollution is the main cause of the algal bloom in this island resort. Raymund Jacinto Sucgang, a researcher for the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute of the Department of ...
- May 26, 2015
No total ban on ‘paraw’ in Boracay, says DENR
Island hopping and sailboat (paraw) activities in this world-famous island will not be totally banned, according to the Environment department. They will only be suspended for up to two weeks after the holiday island reopens ...
- October 21, 2018
Palace stops demolition of Boracay West Cove
The Office of the President has ordered to stop the demolitions of the main bulding of the controversial Boracay West Cove resort. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has cancelled the resort's Forest Land ...
- May 14, 2018
Capiz governor vows to save Panay River
Capiz governor Antonio del Rosario promised to revitalize the Panay River, which he claimed to have become “polluted” and “not fit for human activities.” Del Rosario plans to form a Panay River Council, under which a “Task ...
- August 29, 2016
Gov’t mulls Sept. Boracay ‘soft opening’
Boracay may have a “soft opening” on the first week of September, according to the interagency task force overseeing the island’s rehabilitation. The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), a member of the task ...
- June 21, 2018