The Cebu Provincial Anti-Illegal Fishing Task Force confiscated 49 stingrays after a surprise inspection at a wet market in barangay Centro, Mandaue City yesterday. Marcelo Go, task force head, said a pile of stingrays was displayed at …
ANY lingering trauma over Supertyphoon Yolanda is overshadowed by the thrill of a scenic boat ride through a mangrove forest that survived one of the most destructive typhoons in the country. A blue-feathered long-beaked migratory bird perched…
Paris, France — Global warming has triggered an array of apocalyptic scenarios for future generations, from worsening drought, storms and floods to melted ice sheets and rising seas. Now a new study, published Tuesday and coinciding with…
Conservation group to reintroduce both species in the wild in Central Cebu The Department of Environment and Natural Resources is helping efforts to reintroduce the Visayan spotted deer and Visayan warty pig in Cebu next year. The…
AFTER 982 trees were found illegally cut down in a private lot in Toledo city, who will keep the felled trees? Renewable energy developer SunAsia Energy, Inc. should turn over the trees cut down in the Baltao…
MANDAUE City will open in two weeks the first bicycle lane in Cebu to help ease traffic congestion. Architect Florentino Nimor, Jr., city planning officer, said one of the four lanes of S.B. Cabahug St. – the…
Stronger penalties and strict enforcement of the amended Fisheries Code are seen as the best solution to the problem on illegal, unreported, unregulated (IUU) fishing. This was the consensus reached among 300 participants of the National Summit…
Former Cebu governor Emilio “Lito” Osmeña has declined Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama’s offer for him to serve as the city’s “El Niño crisis manager.” But drought or not next year, Cebu City and its environs are…
THE air quality in Metro Cebu improved yesterday, but the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) is not yet lifting its advisory to wear protective masks. William Cuñado, EMB-7 regional director for Central Visayas, said their monitoring showed that…
Official also notes high fecal coliform level in Mactan beaches Some major rivers in Cebu have been found to have poor water quality, the Environmental Management Bureau in region 7 reported. Only the Luyang River in Carmen…
JOHN Tobit Cruz and three of his friends called themselves “the crazy four.” Cruz said they dreamed of saving the earth by starting with the 3-kilometer stretch of Maningning creek in Taytay City, Rizal province in Luzon.…
Professional diving instructor Al Bernard Coyoca was found floating in the waters off the coast of Daanbantayan, north Cebu with bloodshot eyes, facial scratches, and broken limbs – just like a dynamited fish. The police blotter said…
