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Internet sales put pressure on threatened species
Around 4,300 ads for wildlife products are presently posted online.
DENR, LGUs to rehabilitate denuded forests
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), through its corporate arm, the Natural Resources Development Corp. (NRDC), is set to forge agreements with local government units (LGUs) to rehabilitate 50,000 hectares of denuded forest areas under its "Planting Futures" program.
Fighting to save ‘pawikans’ from extinction
You may know them as the green, pizza-loving martial artists on television but in real life, sea turtles, better known as pawikans are atop the country’s endangered list.
Maitum bats
Thousands of fruit bats (Golden Crown Flying Fox and Giant Flying Foxes, also known as pteropus vampyrus) are seen in Barangay Ticulab which is some 15 kilometers from the poblacion of Maitum, Sarangani.
Climate skeptics slam Gore on global warming
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Al Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his environmental advocacy, was the main target on Monday at a conference of dissident scientists skeptical of his views on global warming.
Battle lines drawn over EU’s climate change proposals
BRUSSELS (DPA) – With the ink barely dry on the European Commission’s plans for fighting climate change, the European Union’s member states have already begun a tug-of-war to pull the legal proposals in their favor.
‘Eat whale, save the planet’ – lobby group
OSLO (Reuters) – Eat a whale and save the planet, a Norwegian pro-whaling lobby said of a study showing that harpooning the giant mammals is less damaging to the climate than farming livestock.
ASEAN eco group opens workshop on heritage parks
The Philippine-based Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Centre for Biodiversity (ASEAN-ACB) has opened a five-day workshop on the enhancement of capability of ASEAN member-countries to manage the region’s 27 "heritage" parks with rich biodiversity resources in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Climate change fight needs collaborative effort, says ESP
Mitigating climate change is a team effort.
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