Environmentalists, students and local officials set free 197 Olive Ridley sea turtle (pawikan) hatchlings to their natural habitat in Tayabas Bay in Sariaya town, now known as a haven of baby sea turtles.
At least 100 Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchlings were released into the waters of Barangay Nagbalayong here as part of the celebration of the town’s Pawikan Festival on Dec. 2.
Students in this city on Thursday returned a sea turtle and 10 tortoises to their natural habitat at the mouth of Pontok River here.
Hong Kong authorities have confiscated nearly four tons of ivory worth $3.4 million in their biggest ever seizure of endangered species products.
The government hopes to replenish fish populations in key marine biodiversity areas around the country through a program called “Ecofish,” a joint project with the United States Agency for International Development.
Running after newly acquired ivory pieces will not be a walk in the park for the authorities, according to heritage experts.
Some Catholic prelates believe that the issues raised against Msgr. Cristobal Garcia are being used by their enemies to discredit the Church and may also have something to do with its stand on the reproductive health (RH) bill.
Amid a controversy involving a Cebu priest allegedly connected to illegal ivory trade, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on Wednesday said the Catholic Church does not condone ivory smuggling even if in the past it was a main ornament used for liturgical worship.
A decades-long struggle in faraway Africa to stop the killing of elephants for their ivory tusks can be partly traced to Cebu as a source of demand and blackmarket trading.
Two pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) that were stranded on the beaches of Zambales and La Union died on Monday and Tuesday despite efforts by fishery officials and volunteers to save them.
To help stop the violent capture of dolphins, boycott their shows. A visiting American animal welfare activist on Friday urged Filipinos to stop patronizing theme parks with “stupid dolphin tricks,” while a fellow Singaporean advocate called on the government to return a batch of these imported marine mammals now in the country to the Solomon Islands.
LUCENA CITY—Fishermen in the coastal village of Lipata in Padre Burgos, Quezon, on Wednesday feasted on the meat of a sea turtle they earlier rescued but which died while in captivity, a Quezon official said. Janet Geneblazo-Buelo, Quezon public information officer, said her office received a report early Wednesday about a rescued sea turtle, [...]
About half a million Filipinos are losing their jobs in Mindanao as a consequence of the government’s drive against illegal loggers, and many of them may turn to crime, according to the embattled head of the Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force.
