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'1,000 barangays ignored Manila Bay cleanup drive'
Nearly 18 percent of the 5,714 barangays surrounding Manila Bay have complied with a directive from the interior department to participate in a drive to clean the polluted bay. The interior department is preparing show-cause ...
- May 3, 2019
Manila Bay cleanup a unifying cause
It has been eight months since the Duterte administration, particularly the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), embarked on the almost impossible task of cleaning Manila Bay and making its waters safe ...
- September 11, 2019
Landbank, DENR, Manila launch 'STP for Manila Bay'
The Land Bank of the Philippines has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the city of Manila ofr the "STP for Manila Bay," a new credit program that will ...
- September 17, 2019
Colombia's island fishermen dive into battle to protect coral reefs
For nearly three decades, Javier Barker has fished in the Caribbean Sea surrounding the Colombian island of San Andres - but until recently he knew little about the importance of coral reefs that fish depend on to survive. ...
- November 13, 2018
Private sector's role in Manila Bay cleanup
Government officials are fond of saying that an important project cannot see the light of day without the full cooperation and participation of the citizens, particularly the private sector. For sure, there are important ...
- January 23, 2020
A lesson from Sri Lanka on saving mangroves
When Yolanda lashed Samar and Leyte in November 2013, feet tripped on feet to contain the damage. The statistics that surfaced five months after were terrifying: 6,300 dead, 4.1 million displaced, and 1.1 million houses ...
- June 1, 2015
Cleaning Manila Bay
Several administrations in the past have attempted-- and obviously failed -- to clean the waters of Manila Bay, where one can see the world-famous beautiful sunset. This time around, under the leadership of President ...
- January 14, 2019
Conglomerate commits to rehab river for P1B
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said its rehabilitation efforts for Manila Bay got a major boost after San Miguel Corp. (SMC) agreed to clean up the Tulahan-Tinajeros river system, one of the ...
- March 7, 2019
G20 plastic trash reduction goal doesn't address 'excessive production: Activists
The world produced about 242 million tons of plastic waste in 2016, according to the World Bank. Some 8 million of that enters the ocean annually, with China and Indonesia being the biggest offenders, a study in the journal ...
- July 2, 2019
DENR Cracks down hard on restaurants polluting Manila Bay
The wastewater-discharging facilities of two restaurants and establishments were ordered closed by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) yesterday for releasing "pollutive wastewater" into the Manila ...
- January 28, 2019