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Six months to save Boracay
Sustainable Tourism Development has been the subject of both international and domestic discourse, and is particularly important when the life cycle of many tourist destinations, including Boracay, is at risk of irreversible ...
- April 28, 2018
Leave PH Rise alone – Duterte
Insisting the Philippine Rise is ours, President Duterte is putting a stop to the marine research and other exploration activities by foreign groups in the area. The President has decided that only Filipinos would be allowed ...
- February 7, 2018
Mangroves vs climate change
Over 1,000 mangroves seedlings were planted at the reforestation area in barangay Parian Oeste in Buang, La Union, Wednesday afternoon, in a bid to combat the ill effects of climate change. The activity was a joint undertaking ...
- August 8, 2014
Sea dispute threatens food security
The escalating territorial dispute between the Philippines and China in the West Philippine Sea will eventually have an impact on food security, Undersecretary Jonas Leones of the Department of Environment and Natural ...
- April 28, 2015
Quarrying blamed for lake fishkill
The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamamalakaya) is blaming the recurrent fish kills in Lake Bito, Leyte, on the quarrying of black sand. Pamalakaya and the Tacloban-based Eastern Visayas Ecumenical ...
- May 3, 2012
The battle to clean up Manila Bay finally underway
The “Battle for Manila Bay” will be won in seven years, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said Monday. Seven years is such a long time. It is six and a half years longer than it took to clean up ...
- January 31, 2019
Target arrivals for Boracay to be revised
The Department of Tourism (DOT) will revise its target for tourist arrivals for Boracay in Aklan. DOT Western Visayas Director Helen Catalbas said the target for this year and onward will be anchored on the update carrying ...
- April 23, 2018
PH needs foreign help in solving plastic pollution
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) should address the plastic pollution in the country by seeking help from other nations that have the technology to solve it. This was pointed out by Surigao del ...
- June 21, 2018
DENR urged: clarify boracay sewage policy
Stakeholders at Boracay in Aklan are calling on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to clarify its directive compelling resorts and hotels to install their own sewage treatment plant (STPs).“We have ...
- August 24, 2018
Negros ethanol plant suspended over fishkill
Environment authorities suspended the operations of an ethanol plant of Universal Robina Sugar Milling Corp. (URSMC) after finding that its untreated wastewater caused fishkill that economically dislocated 200 fishing ...
- August 13, 2015