More than half of the country’s beach and mangrove forests have been lost to deforestation due to harvesting for wood and charcoal production, conversion to fishpond for aquaculture use, and the unbridled development in coastal areas that include dump-and-fill activities. To halt and reverse this rapid rate of mangrove loss,…
"Is it time to declare [National Hero] Jose Rizal as the ‘Father of Philippine Biodiversity?’” The question was a proposition made by broadcast journalist Howie Severino during his talk at the Asean Biodiversity Heroes Forum in Malate, Manila, last August 12. An award-winning broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, Severino, who…
The country’s holding of joint military exercises with China or even Vietnam is not impossible as such exercises could be considered as acts of diplomacy and part of efforts to prevent war with the country’s neighbors or any other countries, according to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of…
A senior lawmaker on Wednesday urged the Marcos administration to insist on China’s compliance with the July 12, 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration invalidating Beijing’s expansion of territorial claims in the South China Sea, including a big part of Manila’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Cagayan de…