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Government-protected areas leave avenues for exploitation
There are a few probable reasons why the country’s protected areas – there are 240 of them – can easily be intruded into by scheming persons under the guise of “investors.” Why is this so? Under the Department of Environment ...
- May 11, 2018
Thriving corals boost hope for Manila Bay
Corals are still thriving in a few areas of Manila Bay – in Maragondon and Ternate, Cavite, and in Corregidor and Carballo islands at the mouth of the bay, the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau of the Department ...
- June 30, 2019
Step up bay cleanup as it continues to draw people
Baseco beach in Tondo, Manila, was filled with thousands of Manilans on Easter Sunday, out to enjoy even just a few minutes of wading in the cool waters of the bay on a specially hot summer day. They can no longer do this ...
- April 24, 2019
Oil spill feared after ship sinks
Cebu City – The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is monitoring the waters off Talisay City for a possible oil spill following the sinking of a cargo ship ...
- May 9, 2017
DENR returns two turtles to sea in Northern Samar
Two turtles where released back to the sea in a town in Northern Samar, according to a report released Friday by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) regional office. Sibbaluca said that based in the ...
- May 6, 2017
PH to rein in visitors to Boracay
The Philippines will limit the number of visitors setting foot on its most treasured island resort each day when it reopens to tourists on October 26 after a six-month rehabilitation effort, an environment official said ...
- October 4, 2018
What to do with the fish pens in Laguna de Bay
‘There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?’ – Robert Kennedy. The order of the President to dismantle the big fish pens in Laguna de Bay while ...
- February 18, 2017
Bohol's mangrove growers get boost
Residents in the island barangay of Banacon, this town, which has the largest man-made mangrove forest in Asia in terms of area planted with different species, have been promised more jobs by the Department of Environment ...
- February 20, 2017
Study: Corals still thriving in Manila Bay; three things needed to bring murky bay to life
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has released the results of the vulnerability assessment for the Manila Bay rehabilitation project, which identified areas where the government and other stakeholders ...
- June 26, 2019
A formula for the Philippines, China, and Vietnam in the West Philippine Sea-South China Sea and other participants
At some point now or sooner than later, the claimants in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea will have to sit down and agree on a seismic and oil exploration program to be followed by a definitive oil drilling and ...
- April 21, 2019