KORONADAL CITY – Alert police officers manning a checkpoint in Maasim town, Sarangani province, arrested a man on Monday for illegally transporting 25 endangered bird species. Police Col. Jerone Orville Panganiban, Sarangani Police Provincial Office chief, said personnel from the 2nd Sarangani...
ILOILO CITY—A newly discovered plant found only in Capiz and Iloilo provinces may be endangered. Researchers sounded the alarm for Begonia jurgenneae following its discovery published by scientific journal Taiwania this month. Dr. Harold O. Buenvenida, Dr. Lillian Jennifer V. Rodriguez, and Mark...
A juvenile Brahminy Kite was rescued after it was found weak while searching for food in Barangay Burayoc, Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte on Tuesday. Resident Edison Aguete spotted the bird, approximately weighing half a kilo, in his property and surrendered it to the Municipal Environment and Natural...
ENRILE, Cagayan – The Community Environment and Natural Resources Office based in Solana, this province, caught a dangerous Luzon King Cobra (Ophiophagus Salvatana) snake with 50 eggs in a residential area in Zone 4, Barangay Magalalag West, here, on Sunday, June 22. Residents reported the...
DAGUPAN CITY – The Pangasinan Provincial Cyber Response Team, with the Community Environment and Natural Resources-Pangasinan Central Office (CENRO)-Pangasinan Central Office, arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly selling endangered sugar gliders online on June 19. The suspect Caloy was nabbed...
BACOLOD CITY – Five Visayan leopards were rescued from a suspected wildlife trafficker at the Bredco port here on Thursday, Jan. 16. FIVE Visayan leopards were recovered from a wildlife trafficker at the Bredco port in Bacolod City on Thursday, Jan. 16. (Photo courtesy of Coast Guard SubStation...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Authorities seized 30 tons of giant clam shells locally known as “taklobo” during an operation in Patikul, Sulu last Monday, Dec. 9. OPERATING troops look at giant clam shells piled up in a vacant lot in Barangay Taglibi, Patikul, Sulu. (Contributed photo by Ely Dumaboc)...
ANGELES CITY, Pampanga – The city government has rescued 25 endangered species here from October to March, Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin said on Wednesday, March 13. A PANGOLIN was among the endangered species rescued in Angeles City. (Photo via Liezle Basa-Inigo) Lazatin said these were...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Environment (DENR) reiterated the need to preserve the six endemic species of Western Visayas region. “Everyone is called upon to do their fair share in preserving our ecosystems so that native and endemic animals and plants can thrive,” said DENR-6 Regional...
SANCHEZ MIRA, Cagayan – An endangered Olive ridley sea turtle was rescued here on Sunday night, January 14. Residents of Barangay Namuac saw the stranded female turtle on the beach and immediately reported their discovery to authorities. AN Olive ridley sea turtle was rescued on Sunday,...
TAYABAS CITY, Quezon – The Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) charged three hunters for capturing and killing a wild boar or “baboy ramo” or the Philippine Warty Pig in the protected area of Mount...
ILOILO CITY – An endangered Visayan leopard cat was found dead in Antique province last week. Reymon S. Aguirre, an agriculturist known as the online blogger “Bisayang Mangunguma,” found the animal locally known as “maral” lifeless on a mountain road in Laua-an town. AGRICULTURIST Reymon...
