Conservation and environmental news & publications: Philippines

In the Philippines, seahorse fishers and traders reported their catch contributes around 30-40% to their annual income - although sometimes reaching 80%.

24 May 2008
Manage wildlife trade for better development outcomes
Well-managed wildlife trade has the potential to be even more of a key development tool for the world’s poor, finds a new report by the wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC, and WWF. » Read more

Armed with toxic spines and capable of producing up to 60 million eggs per batch, deadly waves of crown-of-thorns starfish have reduced Green Island Bay’s coral cover by as much as 60% since 2007.

21 May 2008
Wave of Predatory Starfish Decimate Palawan’s Reefs
By Gregg Yan

Locusts of the sea, they come by the thousands – and leave behind a watery graveyard of coral skeletons.

An enormous wave of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is wreaking havoc on Palawan’s Green Island Bay, famed for harbouring one of the country’s few remaining populations of Dugong.
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Fiji is famous throughout the world for spectacularly rich and vibrant soft coral reefs, which provide havens and food sources for thousands of species of fish and invertebrates.

06 May 2008
$63 million to protect the Coral Triangle
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are joining together to support the preservation of Asia’s Coral Triangle – the world’s centre of marine life – with the GEF committing $63 million to fund conservation of this area. » Read more

Draining, denuding and denying habitat for acacia plantations in Riau. Decomposing peat soils then become major contributors to global climate change

26 Feb 2008
Pulp and palm oil the villains in Sumatra's global climate impact and local elephant losses
Pekanbaru, Sumatra: Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found. » Read more

13 Feb 2008
Body part by body part, Sumatran Tigers are being sold into extinction
Laws protecting the critically endangered Sumatran Tiger have failed to prevent tiger body parts being offered on open sale in Indonesia, according to a new TRAFFIC report . » Read more

Threatened Philippine mallards are some of the preferred "game birds" of the hunters.

24 Jan 2008
Anger in Philippines as hunters post pictures of killed threatened birds on their websites
The practice of hunting groups posting grisly pictures of shot birds on their websites has provoked a backlash in the Philippines, WWF said. » Read more

Swarms of pastel-hued wreckfish, one of more than 385 fish species found within the Apo Reef Natural Park, the Philippines.

04 Oct 2007
Fishing ban protects largest coral reef in the Philippines
Reef fish and other marine species can breathe easier with the introduction of a fishing ban around Apo Reef, one of the world's largest coral reefs. » Read more

Over the next ten years, the goal of WWF's global efforts is the reduction of threats to marine turtles, such as the endangered green turtle.

03 Sep 2007
Chinese poachers caught in the Philippines with endangered marine turtles
Following the confiscation of 200 illegally caught marine turtles, WWF is redoubling its efforts in the Philippines to protect these endangered species.
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Obel Resurreccion of WWF’s Project LIFE (in yellow panda shirt) with elementary school children. Nagbalayong, the Philippines.

06 Aug 2007
Giving LIFE to a new generation of environmentalists in the Philippines
Over 100,000 school children in 900 schools in the Philippines have taken part in LIFE, one of WWF-Philippines’ most dynamic programmes to bolster environmental awareness among the country’s youth. » Read more

12 Jun 2007
The Coral Triangle - the centre of marine biodiversity
No other place on Earth is as rich and varied in marine life as the Coral Triangle. Spanning Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Northern Australia, this extraordinary expanse of ocean covers some 5.7 million km². The Coral Triangle matches the richness and diversity of the Amazon rainforest. » Read more

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