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- No toxic chemicals in dolomite sand Manila Bay, test results showDe Vera-Ruiz, Ellalyn (Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, 2020-10-01)The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has not found toxic chemicals on the dolomite sand from the Manila Bay beach nourishment project, based on the test results released by its Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) and Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB). EMB and MGB released on Wednesday evening the test results of the analyses conducted on the dolomite sand samples taken from the beach nourishment project on Sept. 18 to determine if they contain heavy metals that are harmful to health and marine life. Both bureaus conducted testing on the presence of iron, nickel, lead, and mercury
- China’s reef destruction P231.7 B so far: Pay upBondoc, Jarius (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2020-06-17)China owes the Philippines P231.7 billion for continuing reef destruction and poaching since 2013. With the UN court holding Beijing liable for ecological damage, the Philippines can exact indemnity. China state assets in the Philippines and overseas rightfully can be seized. Government must press payment. Why and how was discussed last week by scientists and international law and relations experts. Over half of the 110 million Filipinos live in coastal communities, relying on marine resources for daily needs. Recompense will correct years of China atrocity and injustice in the West Philippine Sea. Foreign aggression in exclusive economic zones will be deterred.
- Who killed the milkfish?Cardinoza, Gabriel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc., 2011-06-08)They're stubborn. These are the words of Nestor Domenden, regional director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) when asked why fishkills have been a recurring nightmare in Bolinao and Anda towns in western Pangasinan in the last 10 years. “They (milkfish growers) know where their fishing structures should be built, but they continued to disregard it,” Domenden says. A report from the office of the provincial agriculturist in Lingayen shows that 72 of the 75 fishkill-hit cages were built in the waters off Catubig Point in Barangay Tara up to Barangay Culang in Bolinao, while the rest, mostly bamboo pens, dotted the fishing area from Barangay Mal-ong to Barangay Awag and across the Kakiputan Channel to the island village of Siapar in Anda.
- Saving biodiversity at Verde Island PassageCinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2018-10-20)Casting a fishing line with a coral sinker and a plastic-bottle reel, children as young as 8 years old catch their next meal from the pebbled shore of Barangay San Andres here. Most of the women are at home, raising hogs or weaving “buli” (palm) mats, while the men are out at sea to fish for food or collect aquarium fish to sell in Metro Manila. Their houses dot a hillslope, built to withstand the frequent storms. Drinking water comes from deep wells while electricity is supplied by several solar panels. Life is simple and slow in San Andres, a small, poor community on Verde Island along the Verde Island Passage (VIP), a marine and terrestrial zone of rich biological diversity spanning almost 2 hectares and more than 100 kilometers south of Manila. Biologists have discovered a thriving marine ecosystem (1.14 million ha) along the passage in what most people called the “richest place on earth.”
- Boracay's environmental woesAngelo, F. Allan L. (Daily Guardian Multi-Media Services, Inc., 2018-05-05)Some dimwits online and elsewhere are trying to make light of Boracay Island’s environmental problems by spewing fallacies. One hilarious fallacy or lie is that lumot or green algae that bloom in the island’s shoreline are a good indication and essential to the beach area because it is the main source of the famed white sand. What?! Any kid in elementary or high school will tell these dimwits that lumot or green algae serve as food for marine life and an indicator of ecological balance or the lack of it.
- Agency gets advanced reef assessment tool(Panay News, Inc., 2018-06-22)The University of the Philippines – National Institute of Physics (UP-NIP) in Diliman, Quezon City turned over a unit of Teardrop Platform to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region 6. Teardrop Platform is a tool developed under the Automated Rapid Reef Assessment System (ARRAS) project – a collaboration of efforts, expertise and funding among national government agencies and the academe. It was first tested in the waters of the Sagay City Marine Reserve in Negros Occidental.
- DENR seeking sites for seaweed farmingKritz, Ben (The Manila Times Publishing Corporation, 2016-12-08)The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is seeking areas where local production of seaweed can either be started or increased, both as a livelihood measure for coastal communities and as an effective measure against the impacts of climate change. Research in recent years has found that many varieties of seaweed, including types that are commercially farmed in the Philippines and other countries, have unique characteristics that give them carbon sequestration abilities. DENR Secretary Gina Lopez told reporters and seaweed farming stakeholders in a roundtable discussion last week at the training center of the Biodiversity Management Bureau in Quezon City that the DENR has started identifying potential sites for seaweed farming in the country, with the help of other government agencies and local residents.