Browsing Manila Bulletin by Subject "rare species"

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    • 2 endangered turtles rescued, freed in Panay 

      Yap, Tara (Manila Bulletin, August 14, 2017, on page 10)
      Two endangered green sea turtles in Panay Island were recently rescued and released back to their natural habitat, both pawikans (as the locals call it) were found in northern Panay. A female green sea Turtle was accidentally ...

    • 215 'pawikan' hatchlings released in Subic 

      Reyes, Jonas (Manila Bulletin, December 21, 2017, on page B8)
      About 215 sea turtle hatchlings were released last week at the All Hands Beach Resort here in a bid to ensure the conservation of the marine turtle species inside this premier Freeport despite already being in the list of ...

    • Aboitiz Cleanergy Park caps 2020 with discovery of 3rd pawikan nest 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 2, 2021, on page SS-16)
      A third “pawikan” nest was discovered at the Aboitiz Cleanergy Park in Davao City, reaffirming the park’s status as a sustainable environmental haven conducive to a variety of wildlife. The Aboitiz Cleanergy Park is an ...

    • Baby dugong appeals for help 

      Lena, Pearl G. (Manila Bulletin, May 25, 2004, on page B-13)
      Far beyond its weaning stage, the survival of a female baby dugong that was fished out from the seashore of Igang, Nueva Valencia, Guimaras is now at the public's mercy. Information gathered at the Office of the Protected ...

    • Baby Sea Turtles freed back into sea on Pawikan Festival 

      Regala, Franco G. (Manila Bulletin, November 30, 2017, on page B-7)
      Senator Cynthia Villar, together with Bataan Governor Abet Garcia, on Saturday, led a huge crowd in freeing more than a hundred marine turtle hatchlings into the sea during the annual celebration of the Pawikan Festival ...

    • Backpack eco tours 

      (Manila Bulletin, April 23, 2010, on page 6)
      Whale shark (butanding) watching in the Philippines has been gaining steady popularity through the years with global scientific groups and tourists. An endangered species, butanding sightings are relatively rare because ...

    • BFAR implements 3-month ban on tuna fishing in Davao Gulf 

      De Vera, Ellalyn B. (Manila Bulletin, June 3, 2015, on page B-4)
      The government has started the implementation of a three-month closed fishing for tuna in Davao Gulf to protect the fish species at vulnerable stage in their life cycle, particularly during the spawning season. This is the ...

    • BFAR told to regulate fishpens, not ban total harvest of tawilis 

      De Vera-Ruiz, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin, January 28, 2019, on page 7)
      A local fisherfolk group urged the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to regulate fishpen structures instead of imposing fishing ban on Sardinella tawilis following reports that the only freshwater sardine ...

    • Butanding sighted in Cavite waters, again 

      Giron, Anthony (Manila Bulletin, January 29, 2015, on page 13)
      A butanding (whale shark0 was sighted yesterday by banca-riding fishermen off the shore of Isla de Bonito de Salinas, a public resort here. It was the third endangered marine mammal species that went near the shores of ...

    • Cabadbaran City cultivates 'ridge-to-reef' ecosystem 

      (Manila Bulletin, August 27, 2015, on page B-8)
      The city of Cabadbaran, the provincial capital of August del Norte, is taking the lead in protecting its ridge to reef ecosystem. According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources' Protected Areas and Wildlife ...

    • Catching of 'Ludong' fry banned in Cagayan 

      (Manila Bulletin, January 7, 2010, on page B-2)
      Poachers are warned not to collect the fry of the extremely rare Ludong fish that will migrate upstream of the Cagayan River this February, Jack Enrile, adviser to his father, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, and the ...

    • Center of biodiversity 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 14, 2017, on page 14)
      The Philippines is the "center of the center" of marine fish diversity. We have 2,983 fish species compared to the other countries within the Coral Triangle, the center of marine biodiversity of the world.

    • CEZA officials rescue endangered green sea turtle from Chinese 

      Lazaro, Freddie (Manila Bulletin, June 25, 2018, on page 6)
      Officials from the Cagayan Economic Zone Authorities (CEZA) have rescued an endangered species of green sea turtle from the possession of Chinese visitors in Barangay San Vicente, Sta. Ana town, recently. CEZA Officer-in-Charge ...

    • Chinese caught poaching black coral 

      Philippine Information Agency (PIA) (Manila Bulletin, May 31, 2016, on page 6)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and the Philippine Coast Guard accosted a Chinese fishing vessel with ten Chinese nationals on board while gathering protected black coral along Babuyan Claro, Calayan. ...

    • Dead pangolins, seahorses seized from ship in Manila 

      Geducos, Argyll Cyrus B. (Manila Bulletin, January 14, 2017, on page 2)
      The Philippine Coast Guardian on Friday found a truck loaded with dead and preserved pangolins, seahorses and other wildlife aboard a ship docked at Manila North Harbor's Pier 4. A team from the Manila Coast Guard Station, ...

    • DENR Rescues Seacow Off Infanta, Quezon 

      De Vera, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin, January 12, 2014, on page 12)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has rescued a critically endangered seacow, locally called dugong, which got stranded in the waters off Barangay Binulusan in Infanta, Quezon, last Thursday. Local ...

    • DENR takes steps to preserve Manila Bay 

      De Vera Ruiz, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin, March 18, 2018, on page 6)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Ecosystems Research and Development (DENR-ERDB) will conduct the 15-month vulnerability study of the Manila Bay along with the Ramsar Convention-recognized wetland – the ...

    • DENR urges public to protect sea turtles from extinction 

      Marticio, Marie Tonette (Manila Bulletin, January 14, 2022, on page 5)
      Following the recent release of five endangered green sea turtles in Lapinig, Northern Samar, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has appealed to the public to protect them from extinction. All sea ...

    • DENR vows to enforce environmental laws, regulations aggressively 

      De Vera-Ruiz, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin, January 6, 2019, on page 2)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has vowed to be more aggressive in enforcing environmental laws and regulations in 2019 to sustain the momentum generated by the rehabilitation of Boracay Island ...

    • Dolphin dies on Cavite shore; probe launched 

      Giron, Anthony (Manila Bulletin, January 12, 2015, on page 14)
      A female dwarf spinner dolphin, with wounds in the body, died before dawn Saturday on the shore of Barangay Wawa II, this municipality. Authorities said that the dolphin was still alive when found by a fisherman named ...