US supports expansion of responsible, sustainable seafood sourcing in Iloilo
The Philippines is a major exporter of blue swimming crab. It is the second largest exporter of this species to the United States.
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As one of the mega-diverse countries in the world, the Philippines is well-known for its biodiversity and rich ecosystem. However, economic advancements and urbanization have endangered this biodiversity. Stay up to date with the latest biodiversity news in the Philippines with Business Mirror, and learn how the government, private agencies and companies are adapting to preserve the country’s healthy ecosystem.
The Philippines is a major exporter of blue swimming crab. It is the second largest exporter of this species to the United States.
SAN FRANCISCO—More than 80 years ago, a beautiful butterfly called Xerces Blue that once fluttered among San Francisco’s coastal dunes went extinct as stately homes, museums and parks ate up its habitat, marking the first butterfly species in the United States to disappear due to human development.
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique—The Antique provincial government told the public visiting the province’s 50 caves to help stop the destruction of rock formations, avoid littering and gathering of birds’ nests to protect and conserve these underground chambers.
Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world’s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to stop the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution.
SIEM REAP, Cambodia—A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water.
The world installed 117 gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2023, a 50 percent increase from the year before, making it the best year for new wind projects on record, according to a new report by the industry’s trade association.
OXFORD, England—Humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions and it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift, the head of the United Nations climate agency said.
BUTUAN CITY—Every year, hundreds of hawksbill turtle hatchlings dig out of their nest and start their long arduous journey into the ocean. They crawl out of the dark sand beaches of Magsaysay town in Misamis Oriental province in Mindanao, one of several hawksbill nesting sites in the Philippines.
LUANG PRABANG, Laos—Senior finance and central bank officials from Southeast Asia and major economies met on Thursday in the scenic Laotian city of Luang Prabang to discuss ways to help the region build resilience against shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic and natural disasters brought on by climate change.
Recognizing the impact of extreme weather events on the country’s food production capacities, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered Cabinet officials to assist farmers hit by the environmental phenomena, El Niño and La Niña.
In Soweto, South Africa, residents queue up for fresh water. In a favela in Rio de Janeiro, residents collect it from a naturally-ßoccurring small stream. And in Guwahatai, India, residents collect water from an open drain, filling buckets to the brim.
The Asean Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) and the German government, through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, have concluded a 14-year partnership during a three-day closing forumfrom March 19 to 21.
“If you love nature, nature will love you back.”
Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared for them, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in its first-ever risk assessment for the bloc a few days ago.
VALENCIA CITY, Bukidnon—Indigenous Peoples’ (IPs) groups, students, environmental advocates, local government unit (LGU) representatives and national agencies’ representatives gathered at a mall in Valencia City for the weeklong event, dubbed “Wildlife is Here” (WIH), that started on March 5.
When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having on the planet—from rapid declines in biodiversity to increases in Earth’s temperature by burning fossil fuels.
A landmark United Nations report that was released recently reveals the shocking state of wildlife, with particular focus on the world’s migratory species that are rapidly on a decline and increasing global extinction risk.
NEW YORK—New York City’s died from a traumatic impact, zoologists confirmed a day after he reportedly flew into a building, with further testing planned to determine if the Eurasian eagle-owl may have been sick.
WASHINGTON—Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier.
BUTUAN CITY—Experts are alarmed as attacks on the Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) continue to harm and threaten the critically endangered raptor with a new victim in the town of Pangantucan, a year after the rescue of a PHL eagle in San Fernando town of the same province.
Butuan City – Experts are alarmed as attacks on the Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) continue to harm and threaten the critically endangered raptor with a new victim in the town of Pangantucan, a year after the rescue of a PHL eagle in San Fernando town of the same province.
In an effort to promote the better care, appreciation, and utilization of dogs in local communities, this hard-working multisectoral group of volunteers is offering the public basic and advanced K9 training courses.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Cambodia will begin installing hundreds of monitoring cameras and import four tigers from India as part of a plan to restore its tiger population, officials said on Friday.
One of the biggest privileges of being a primatologist is spending time in remote locations with monkeys and apes, living near these animals in their habitats and experiencing their daily lives. As a 21st-century human, I have an immediate impulse to take pictures of these encounters and share them on social media.
Ordinance. 031-2023, or the Mabini Integrated Coastal Management Code of 2023, that was enacted by the local government of Mabini, Batangas province, on October 23, 2024, took effect on January 19.
In a bid to protect the mountain ecosystems in Mindanao, a group of researchers and scientists from various environmental institutions explored the vast forest areas to document local biodiversity.
Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system. They reduce the buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and land degradation by 30 percent each year.
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