A party-list lawmaker wants the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to stop its decision to destroy seized elephant ivory tusks, amounting to P420 million, saying these items could be preserved and used for educational purposes.
Thai police said Monday they had discovered more than 200 live wild animals including monkeys, tortoises and 14 white lions during a raid on a house in the capital Bangkok.
Local populations of dugong and Irrawaddy dolphin are on the verge of extinction, according to a new book released this month detailing the conservation status of marine mammals found in the Philippines.
“Lolong,” the world’s largest captive crocodile whose sudden death stunned the public earlier this month, may have been done in by cardiac arrest arising from pneumonia, initial findings from the necropsy showed.
Lolong, the world’s biggest reptile in captivity, is dead.
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Two pythons measuring 13.2 feet and 10 feet were recovered from the junkyard of the Light Rail Transit 1depot in Pasay City on Friday and Saturday morning.
Thai customs officers have seized hundreds of cobras being smuggled through the country for use in traditional medicine as a supposed sexual aid, an official said Wednesday.
Tanzanian police have seized over 200 elephant tusk pieces valued at around a million dollars from 91 different animals, officials said on Wednesday.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has declared coastal areas in a town in Agusan del Norte as a safe haven for marine turtles.
A Quezon City court has refused to extend a 72-hour temporary environmental protection order (TEPO), which had momentarily stopped the re-export of 25 dolphins to Singapore.
In its first report in 20 years since the enactment of a law aimed to ensure the conservation of the country’s biodiversity, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) acknowledged that much has to be done even as there have been gains in its efforts in protected areas management.
Philippine authorities looking for religious statues made from “blood” ivory were prevented from entering a church where the banned items were allegedly kept, a government investigator said Saturday.
