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TUBBATAHA ANNOUNCES BEST VIDEO WINNER
Tuesday 28th of May 2013
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan, May 28 (PIA) -- Tubbataha Management Office (TMO) announced recently the winners in Best Tubbataha Video Plug school-based competition dubbed the “Beauty, Bounty, and a Shared Heritage: 25 Years of Protecting Tubbataha”.
The theme encouraged contestants to create a 30-second video showing Tubbataha’s beauty and value as the Philippine’s premiere diving destination.
Video footages used in this competition were generously provided by TXL Productions, a long time supporter of Tubbataha Reesf that has an extensive library of underwater videos taken in the park.
The winners are Xandrino Mangunay, ov...
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19Apr2012PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan, April 19 (PIA) -- The Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) ordered the demolition of an eight-hectare fishpond in Barangay Panalingaan, Rizal town. The area was illegally converted from being a mangrove area into a fish pond. The order was served personally by Engr. Teodoro Baltazar, Jr., deputized Sheriff of the board, to the owner Rodrigo Toto. Baltazar led the actual demolition in coordination with other concerned agencies. The PCSD Administra...
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31Mar2012ODIONGAN, Romblon, March 31 (PIA) -- The Provincial Government-Environment & Natural Resources Office (PG-ENRO) adopted and acquired a locally developed Charcoal Briquetting Technology Project intended for Tablas Island, Romblon. The briquetting technology serves as a substitute for the production of traditional charcoal available in the market. It will put biomass and agroforestry wastes into good use and will also help mitigate carbon dioxide emission in the atmosphere and lessen the cutting...
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12Mar2012PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan, March 12 (PIA) -- The Naval Forces West (NAVFORWEST) was adjudged as the Cleanest and the Greenest among the military and PNP camps last March 3, 2012 by the city government of Puerto Princesa. This is in line with the annual competition among government and non-government institutions and facilities which focus on the Oplan Linis Program of the city. As one of the military camps in Puerto Princesa City, NAVFORWEST regularly conducts beautificati...
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23Feb2012CAJIDIOCAN, Romblon, February 23 (PIA) -- A 288-hectare fish sanctuary has been established late last month in this town which aims to protect coral reefs from human access that may cause damage to the marine habitat. The fish sanctuary, which starts from the Paraiso point of Brgy. Taguilos to Binarilan point of Brgy. Marigondon, is also expected to help increase the supply of fishes to cope with the increasing market demand. The fish sanctuary is directly managed by the Barang...
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22Feb2012ROMBLON, Romblon, Feb. 22 (PIA) --- Stakeholders from various sectors participated in the recently-held Philippine International Bio-Energy Conference at the Manila Hotel, which assembled bio-energy industry players from farmer groups, plant producers, investment groups, financing institutions, academe and LGUs among others. The delegates from Romblon were led by Governor Eduardo C. Firmalo, along with the Environment and Natural Resources Office (ENRO – Romblon) and the technical...
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21Feb2012QUEZON CITY, February 21 (PIA) -- The Save Palawan Movement (SPM) will be conducting more aggressive campaigns in the next two weeks to spread greater awareness about the protection of our island ecosystem, as well as discuss how destructive human practices, particularly mining operations, affect the balance of biodiversity and economic growth in the country today. Three major conferences will commence in a span of two weeks starting with the Visayas Conference on Mining and the Ecology...
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21Feb2012ALCANTARA, Romblon, February 21 (PIA) --- The Environment and Natural Resources (ENRO) and DENR-Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) supported the recently concluded YES-O 2012 Environmental Symposium with the theme, “Save Mother Earth, Protect Flora and Fauna and Reduce Greenhouse Emissions”. The symposium which was attended by 349 participants aimed to orient and heighten awareness of the students of Tugdan National High School, science teachers, sel...
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21Feb2012ODIONGAN, Romblon, February 21, (PIA) --- The Environment and Natural Resources Office (ENRO) conducted its first tree planting activity at Brgy. Progreso Este to mitigate problems on soil erosion and river bank denudation caused by quarry operations of sand and gravel extraction and natural calamities such as typhoons and floods. The activity was participated by 22 participants composed of ENRO employees, members of the barangay council of Progreso Este, the Philippine Army, some baran...
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15Feb2012CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro, Feb. 15 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has released more than P5 million to restore the forests of Oriental Mindoro. The DENR released P5,379,830 for the Upland Reforestation Program (UPR), to be divided among the 249 beneficiaries in the municipality of Baco. Congressman Rodolfo G. Valencia of the first district requested the release of the funds to provide jobs to the program partners who will plant trees in...
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27Jan2012PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan, Jan. 27 (PIA) -- The Tubbataha Protected Area Management Board (TPAMB) adopts stiffer rules and guidelines on the conduct of allowable activities inside the Tubbataha Reef Natural Park (TRNP) to enhance its protection and conservation. The TPAMB approved recently Administrative Order (AO) No. 1, which consolidates all previous TPAMB issuances and prohibited acts stipulated in Republic Act 10067 or the TRNP Act of 2009. The TPAMB, the sole policy-m...
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20Jan2012by Louie T. Cueto CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro, Jan. 20 (PIA) -- The city information office is actively campaigning for public participation in the “Monthly Earth Hour,” which is a take-off from the global Earth Hour activity organized by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund), usually held every last week of March each year. The city government recognizes the urgent need for communities to respond to global warming. Hen...
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