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 cited poorly regulated shipping, poorly regulated shipping, poorly planned construction of tourism infrastructure, as well as illegal fishing and overfishing as the economic activities in the Philippine that have greatest negative impact on the country's coastal and marine ecosystems.

Threats to Philippine coastal ecosystem cited. (2010, February 23). BusinessWorld, p. S1/4.