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QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nanawagan ang Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) sa lahat ng local government units (LGUs) sa bansa at sa publiko na makiisa sa isasagawang Earth Hour 2018. Ang Earth Hour ay isasagawa sa Sabado, Marso 24 mula 8:30 ng gabi hanggang 9:30 ng gabi. Ayon kay DILG Officer in Charge Eduardo Año, bilang mga lider sa kani-kanilang komunidad ay kinakailangan nilang ipakita sa kanilang mga nasasakupan ang […]
JUNE 3 (WWF) — Climate change solutions-provider World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reiterated its support for the government’s Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) system. The FiT guarantees Renewable Energy (RE) developers a constant generation rate per KWh over the next 20 years, with periodic reviews by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to adjust rates for foreign exchange and inflation. Various groups recently opposed the FiT, arguing how rates might further burden consumers. However, Philippine electricity rates have […]
SAN JOSE, CAMARINES SUR – The Municipality of San Jose, Philips Electric and Lighting Inc. plus the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Philippines) signed a formal partnership to illuminate San Jose Port, a tuna landing site, using solar-powered LED lights. The signing was held during the municipality’s Fishers’ Day, which saw local fisherfolk take part in a fishing competition and a cook-off as part of the annual weeklong town fiesta. May is also the Month […]
MAY 14 (WWF) — “Don’t fall into that fish pen,” warns Daryl Dandal, an offshore cage warden. “It has two giant groupers. Both are larger than you.” I nod and tiptoe through a network of planks above the glittering waters of Taytay in Palawan, Philippines. Here lie about 2000 fish cages, where various species of grouper are grown to feed a ballooning export trade. For the Philippines, this is the center of the LRFFT: the […]
THE value of the ocean’s riches rivals the size of the world’s leading economies, but its resources are rapidly eroding, according to a report released by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on Thursday (April 23). The report, Reviving the Ocean Economy: The case for action – 2015, analyses the ocean’s role as an economic powerhouse and outlines the threats that are moving it toward collapse. The value of key ocean assets is conservatively estimated […]
THE European Union (EU) on 21 April lifted the nation’s Yellow Card fisheries rating, which was slapped onto the Philippines in June 2014 for inadequately addressing illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing or IUUF. “We laud the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and all players for this success, but we should not stop here. We have created the momentum to sustainably transform the country’s fisheries sector,” says World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Philippines) President […]
“This lamp contains crude oil,” says fisherman Joys Dominguez while raising a grimy, soot-caked gin bottle. We are inside a hut in Beton, an island community in Northern Palawan. Night has settled and our world is pitch-black, save for what the flickering flames illuminate. Outside is the sea and above it, a sea of stars. Around 15 million Filipinos lack regular access to electricity. Beton and its 300 fisherfolk families are no different, relying on […]
“My father has always been a Pescador, our term for fishermen,” says Cocoy Garcia, a 38-year old fisher, as we strolled around his stilt village in Culion, Northern Palawan. “I was nine when he first took me out. We caught baskets of squid that first night, lured in by the glow of our petromax lamp.” Together, Cocoy and his father fished for decades. The old Pescador taught his son the age-old skills of the sea […]
