Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 21:15:17 +0000
A group of stakeholders in Boracay is calling on the government to address problems plaguing tourists and residents, less than two months after the island reopened to tourists.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 21:10:40 +0000
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has allowed a 1-hectare “Minahang Bayan” (people’s mine) exclusively for pocket miners at a site in Itogon town, Benguet province
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:16:23 +0000
An interagency task force is set to file charges against local officials who have not been cooperating with government efforts to clean up Manila Bay.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:31:02 +0000
Manila Bay remained unfit for swimming because of high-level pollution caused by trash and other kinds of waste dumped by illegal settlers in Metro Manila, Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said on Tuesday.
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Kalibasib, the lone surviving Philippine tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) bred in captivity, is aging.
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The government is not banning all parties on Boracay Island when it reopens on Oct. 26, contrary to an infographic being circulated that specify activities prohibited on the resort island.
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The clean and quiet beaches of Boracay that visitors saw on Monday brought back memories of the pristine island that it was before tourism came, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said on Tuesday.
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The government does not have a law to use as basis in enforcing limits on the number of people entering Boracay, environment and local officials admitted on Wednesday.
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Read moreTHE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ordered the suspension of mining operations in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) a few days after Typhoon Ompong (Mangkhut) ravaged Northern Luzon. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu issued the order as he revoked on Monday the permits of all small-scale mining in the region. RALPH EDWIN U. VILLANUEVA
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Several business operators on Boracay Island object to another order by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) requiring even small establishments to put up of sewerage treatment plants (STPs).
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