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(Eagle News) — Umaapela si Senador Sonny Angara sa gobyerno na tutukan rin ang rehabilitasyon at pagpapaganda sa iba pang tourist destinations sa Pilipinas. Sinabi ni Angara na dapat magpatupad na rin ng pre-emptive measures sa mga lugar na nagpapakita na ng pagkasira dahil sa pag-abuso ng mga turista kabilang na ang El Nido sa Palawan. “There should be constant improvement of our facilities, so our carrying capacity will grow with arrivals. We must always […]
TAMPA, United States (AFP) — Six different sub-species of tigers exist today, scientists confirmed Thursday, amid hopes the findings will boost efforts to save the fewer than 4,000 free-range big cats that remain in the world. The six include the Bengal tiger, Amur tiger, South China tiger, Sumatran tiger, Indochinese tiger and Malayan tiger, said the report in the journal Current Biology. Three other tiger subspecies have already gone extinct: the Caspian, Javan and Bali […]
by Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse BORACAY, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines opened the doors Friday to a spruced up and newly regulated Boracay, its famous holiday island that was shuttered to mend decades of harm caused by unchecked tourism. The white sand idyll was closed to visitors in April after President Rodrigo Duterte called it a “cesspool” tainted by raw sewage flowing from hotels and restaurants straight into the sea. But the re-christened resort […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Bits of plastic have been detected in the faeces of people in Europe, Russia and Japan, according to research claiming to show for the first time the widespread presence of plastics in the human food chain. All eight volunteers in a small pilot study were found to have passed several types of plastic, with an average of 20 micro-particles per 10 grams of stool, researchers […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Global use of raw materials is expected to double by 2060, “placing twice the pressure on the environment” than at present, according to an OECD study released on Monday. The study “sees global materials use rising to 167 gigatonnes in 2060 from 90 gigatonnes today,” the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of advanced economies, said. It gave increases in population, economic activity and living standards around the world […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The last polar bear kept in South Korea has died of old age only weeks before his planned departure to better living conditions in Britain, zoo officials said Thursday. Tongki — a 23-year-old male named after a Japanese cartoon character of the 1980s — lived in a 330-square-metre (3,500-square-foot) concrete enclosure at the Everland theme park outside Seoul. The zoo had planned to move him to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park […]
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — The near-extinct vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise, has not yet disappeared from its habitat off the coast of Mexico, a research team said Wednesday after spotting six of them. The vaquita has been nearly wiped out by illegal fishing in its native habitat, the Gulf of California, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned in May that it could go extinct this year. But “all hope is not lost” for […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Despite an exceptionally snow-filled winter, Swiss glaciers have lost 2.5 percent of their volume this year, according to a report Tuesday which dubbed 2018 “a year of extremes”. This year’s record-breaking temperatures have greatly contributed to the loss of “a fifth of (the glaciers’) volume over the past decade”, according to the annual study on the state of the glaciers, published by the Swiss Academies of Science. And this despite the […]
(Eagle News) — The government on Monday, October 15 started its 10-day dry run for the reopening of Boracay Island on October 26. The island was closed for tourists for six months due to clean-up and rehabilitation work. (Photos by Eagle News Aklan Bureau Ray Rafael Ramos, Grace Ann Reyes)
KUNMING, Yunnan, China (AFP) — Three playful white Bengal tiger cubs are charming visitors as they clamber around their enclosure at a zoo in China. The rare, blue-eyed triplets were born nearly three months ago at the Yunnan Wildlife Zoo in Kunming, and made their public debut in early October. “The oldest one — the largest — is very naughty and has a real appetite. He’s the naughtiest. The youngest is like a baby, she’s […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The best — and fairest — way to cap global warming is to empower indigenous forest peoples, reduce food waste and slash meat consumption, an alliance of 38 NGOs said Monday. Restoring natural forest ecosystems, securing the land rights of local communities and revamping the global food system could cut greenhouse emissions 40 percent by mid-century and help humanity avoid climate catastrophe, they argued in […]
(Eagle News) — Hihigpitan ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources ang pagpasok ng mga dayuhan maging ng mga lokal na turista sa isla ng Boracay simula ngayong araw, Oktubre 15. Ito ang inihayag ni DENR spokesperson Usec. Jonas Leones kasunod ng isasagawang dry run o partial re-opening ng naturang isla matapos itong isailalim sa anim na buwang rehabilitasyon. Ayon kay Leones, layon ng dry run na makita o mapag-aralan kung naging epektibo ang mga […]
