Browsing BusinessWorld by Subject "mangroves"

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    • Crablets released as Tagum boosts soft-shell crab production, aquaculture 

      Carillo, Carmencita (BusinessWorld, January 14, 2016, on page S1/5)
      Travelers entering Tagum City from Davao City, about 45 kilometers to the southwest, are greeted by a massive bronze-colored statue of a traditional bangka boat with fisherfolk aboard: a symbol of Tagum’s commitment to ...

    • CSR focuses on coastal cleanup 

      (BusinessWorld, June 7, 2013, on page S3/9)
      SHORE IT UP -- a project of Metro Pacific Investment Corp. (MPIC) -- is the country’s longest corporate-backed environment program. It recently marked its fifth year as it kicked off a year-long clean-up drive in Mabini, ...

    • DENR starts reviving mangrove trees along a portion of Manila Bay 

      (BusinessWorld, January 4, 2021, on page S1/8)
      The environment department has started planting nilad trees at the Baseco lagoon to revive the mangrove species along Manila Bay, the agency announced last week. “Nowadays, we can hardly find nilad growing in this place. ...

    • Global marine populations halved since 1970, WWF says 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, September 17, 2015, on page S1/5)
      Populations of marine mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish have dropped by about half in the past four decades, with fish critical to human food suffering some of the greatest declines, WWF warned Wednesday. In a new report, ...

    • How stewardship can address pressing environmental issues 

      Castillo, Lysander N. (BusinessWorld, July 27, 2018, on page S8/6)
      This is where the “face” of environmental stewardship should come out, that is, taking care of the environment because of the concern for all the living, especially our fellow human beings. This is not to say that climate ...

    • Mangroves seen more beneficial to seaside residents than fish farms 

      Yang, Angelica Y. (BusinessWorld, December 3, 2020, on page S1/4)
      Mangroves are more beneficial to fishing communities than fish farming, which employs few workers, a marine scientist said at an online forum organized by Oceana Philippines. Dr. Jurgenne H. Primavera said Wednesday that ...

    • Mangroves, mini-forest planned at Iloilo coal plant 

      Angelo, Francis Allan L. (BusinessWorld, March 19, 2010, on page S3/8)
      An independent power producer here will establish a mangrove farm and mini-forest around its 164-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant to promote not just environmental protection but tourism as well. The move to create a ...

    • Maynilad plants 13,000 tree samplings mangrove propagules in 2020 

      Ochave, Revin Mickhael D. (BusinessWorld, February 16, 2021, on page S1/12)
      Maynilad Water Services, Inc. planted 13,000 tree saplings and mangrove propagules last year under its watershed management initiative that aims to prevent flooding and soil erosion. In a statement, the west zone water ...

    • PPA contractors to be required to plant tree, mangroves 

      Ibañez, Jenina P. (BusinessWorld, January 22, 2021, on page S1/10)
      Firms with contracts granted by the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) will now be required to plant trees and mangroves as part of government efforts to protect the environment. Starting Feb. 2, the PPA’s service and goods ...

    • Prawn sandwich destroys fish nurseries: expert 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, April 11, 2008, on page S1/11)
      She helped turn many of the world's prawn farmers into millionaires, but Jurgenne Primavera now worries that her life's work might have indirectly accelerated the destruction of fish nurseries. The Filipina zoologist, whose ...

    • Protecting the Coral Triangle a top priority 

      NJCM (BusinessWorld, January 20, 2010, on page S1/1-S1/3)
      Protecting the biodiversity-rich Coral Triangle needs the combined efforts of the government and private sector, and should be a top priority if the region wants to sustain the area's vast fishery resource, experts yesterday ...

    • RP media remiss in covering mangrove conservation issues 

      (BusinessWorld, June 16, 2006, on page S3/8)
      Issues related to mangrove development and conservation appear to have the least important among Filipino journalists covering the environment, a survey of the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau showed. Kathleen ...

    • 'Sea of Life' conservation project launched 

      (BusinessWorld, August 14, 2018, on page S2/8)
      Vibrant, abundant and teeming with life, this is how most divers and marine conservationists would describe Philippine's oceans and marine life. The country's coral reef area is so biodiverse that it is considered as the ...

    • Threats to Philippine coastal ecosystem cited 

      (BusinessWorld, February 23, 2010, on page S1/4)
      Better management of marine and coastal resources requires better supervision of related economic activities, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report published last Friday. A statement on the report ...

    • West Africa sets out to protect dying mangroves 

      Thompson, Felicity (BusinessWorld, March 12, 2010, on page S3/8)
      Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's ...