SunStar Philippines: Recent submissions

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    • Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Shellfish Bulletin No. 19, Series of 2020, 19 September 2020 

      Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) (SunStar Philippines, September 25, 2020, on page 7)
      Based on the latest laboratory results of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and Local Government Units (LGUs), shellfishes collected at Puerto Princesa Bay, Bohol; Tambobo and Siit Bays, Siaton and Bais ...

    • DOT 7 leads dive clean-up, conducts Oplan Islas 

      PR (SunStar Philippines, September 24, 2020, on page 12)
      As part of the 35th International Coastal Clean-up, the Department of Tourism (DOT) 7, together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources 7, Lapu-Lapu City Government and Crimson Resort, has conducted a Dive ...

    • Cebu City holds river cleanup 

      JJL (SunStar Philippines, September 19, 2020, on page 4)
      The Cebu City government will initiate a coastal cleanup on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, by the Kinalumsan and Mahiga Rivers starting 6 a.m. In a press conference on Friday, Sept. 18, Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) 7 ...

    • Cordova Reopening doors to tourists 

      Cacho, Katlene O. (SunStar Philippines, August 29, 2020, on page 10)
      The town of Cordova is offering a host of tourism activities to woo local tourists back. On Sunday, Aug. 30, the town will be launching its tourism recovery plan through its Dance with the Marine Life and Sing with the ...

    • Newly renovated Pasil Fish Market now open 

      PAC (SunStar Philippines, August 29, 2020, on page 4)
      The Pasil Fish Market is finally open to the public after four months spent by the Cebu City government renovating the old edifice. The City facilitated the replacement of the market’s old roof, made improvements on all ...

    • Dolphins, other marine mammals sighted anew in Sarangani Bay 

      Provincial Information Office (PIO)-Sarangani (SunStar Philippines, September 2, 2020, on page 10)
      A Risso’s dolphin is spotted at the Sarangani Bay, near Malapatan and Alabel, on August 28 during the conduct of marine mammal monitoring led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Sarangani and ...

    • PH 'Best Overseas Diving' spot 

      (SunStar Philippines, September 10, 2020, on page 10)
      Central Visayas’ diving spots in Moalboal, Cebu and Bohol and Busuanga in Palawan have captured the interest of the global diving community as the Philippines bagged the Best Overseas Diving during the Marine Diving Awards ...

    • Livestock ship with 39 Filipinos missing in Stormy seas 

      Associated Press (AP) (SunStar Philippines, September 4, 2020, on page 6)
      Japanese rescuers were searching Thursday, September 3, for a livestock ship with 42 crew members on board that a survivor said sank during rough weather a day earlier off a southern Japanese island, the coast guard said. ...

    • Capitol's gripes against 2 dolomite companies in Alcoy 

      (SunStar Philippines, September 14, 2020, on page 5)
      [1] The provincial and municipal governments and the barangay (Pugalo) where the mining and processing of dolomite take place are not getting their due share in the profits of the enterprise in the form of taxes. Problem: ...

    • Mayor urges 2 mining firms to heed Prov'l order 

      ANV; JKV (SunStar Philippines, September 13, 2020, on page 4)
      Alcoy Mayor Michael Sestoso will meet with representatives of the Dolomite Mining Corp. (DMC) and the Philippine Mining Service Corp. (PMSC) to shed light on the dolomite controversy. Sestoso said the Provincial Government ...

    • 38 Filipinos missing after ship capsizes: Ship that capsized off the coast of the Southern Japan was also carrying 5,800 cows 

      Associated Press (AP); JPA (SunStar Philippines, September 4, 2020, on page 4)
      Japanese rescuers were searching Thursday, September 3, for a livestock ship with 42 crew members on board that a survivor said sank during rough weather a day earlier off a southern Japanese island, the coast guard said. ...

    • Aboitiz Cleanergy Park cited as birdwatching haven 

      PR (SunStar Philippines, September 12, 2020, on page 5)
      A wide variety of habitat types, combined with the area's safe and secure environment, has made the Aboitiz Cleanergy Park in Davao City an excellent site for bird watching, a local bird watching expert said, with the ...

    • DENR trash traps to reduce solid waste in Manila Bay 

      Datu, Carlo Lorenzo J. (SunStar Philippines, August 18, 2020, on page 1)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is utilizing floating trash traps made of recycled materials to prevent solid wastes from reaching into the waters of Manila Bay. About 50 trash traps made of used ...

    • Crushed dolomite for Manila Bay's 'white beach': Cebu Provincial Board may look into breach of agreement, not legality. Extraction, processing, hauling of sand covered by contract and law. 

      Seares, Pachico A. (SunStar Philippines, September 9, 2020, on page 7)
      Cebu Provincial Board Member John Ismael Borgonia has made some noise over the report that the Manila Bay Rehabilitation Project was using fine sand to cover a 500-meter stretch of shore. The synthetic fine sand turned out ...

    • Dolomite extraction, transport to Manila 'aboveboard' 

      JKV (SunStar Philippines, September 6, 2020, on page 3)
      The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) 7 issued permits to allow the transport of 3,000 metric tons of processed dolomite, or “white sand,” that was dumped on the shoreline of the Manila Bay earlier this week. MGB 7 Director ...

    • Cebu officials probe dolomite mining for Manila Bay rehab 

      JJL (SunStar Philippines, September 5, 2020, on page 2)
      The Cebu Provincial Government has launched a probe into a Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) pronouncement that crushed dolomite boulders from Cebu were being used to fill up Manila Bay’s 500-meter ...

    • Garcia stops dolomite mining for Manila Bay project 

      ANV (SunStar Philippines, September 9, 2020, on page 2)
      Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, issued an executive order stopping the extraction and transport of dolomite rocks from Alcoy for the Manila Bay beautification project. Executive Order (EO) 25 ...

    • Greenland lost 586B tons of ice in 2019 

      Associated Press (AP) (SunStar Philippines, August 23, 2020, on page 14)
      Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had ...

    • Fights vs. sargassum debris 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (SunStar Philippines, August 13, 2020, on page 5)
      Seen as a blight on shorelines and considered a nuisance by fishermen, the sargassum seaweed is now being used to fertilize the mined-out lands of nickel miner Cagdianao Mining Corporation (CMC) here. Locally known as ...

    • Bfar 7 warns against consuming shellfish from Tambobo, Bais bays 

      WBS; PR (SunStar Philippines, August 7, 2020, on page 12)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Central Visayas (BFAR 7) has advised the public to be wary of gleaning shellfish, locally known as “kinhason,” in Tambobo Bay and Bais Bay in Negros Oriental. BFAR 7 Director ...