TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) reported the release last week of a Philippine Serpent Eagle in Cagayan and the discovery of new sea turtle nesting sites in Batanes. In Cagayan, the DENR Community Environment and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and partner agencies rescued 63 people from a motorboat drifting at sea off Sulu on Monday night, authorities reported Tuesday. Coast Guard Station (CGS)-Eastern Sulu said the vessel in distress, M/B Queen Shaima 5, was located around...
CEBU CITY – Authorities rescued wildlife species illegally kept in a resort in Barangay Kawit, Medellin, northern Cebu. During the operation, which was conducted on Wednesday morning, June 3, operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Mandaue City Field Unit also took into...
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The Antique Provincial Board on Monday awarded a 12-year-old girl with a certificate of commendation for helping save the lives of her fellow passengers on board the vessel that capsized in the sea of the municipality of Culasi on May 6. Vice Gov. Genevive...
PAGUDPUD, Ilocos Norte – Wildlife volunteers on Sunday rescued a distressed green sea turtle weighing 10.4 kilograms in Sitio Dialao in Barangay Caparispisan in this municipality. Raymond Sesuca, Corporate Social Responsibility manager of North Luzon Renewable Energy Corp., told the Philippine...
Responders pulled two more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed building in Angeles City, Pampanga, bringing the death toll to six, as rescue teams continue to navigate heavily unstable concrete debris. Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) spokesperson Commodore Noemie Cayabyab said one of the fatalities...
CALANASAN, Apayao – A rare Luzon bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica) dove was released back into the wild on Thursday after it was rescued in Barangay Ferdinand here. The Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO) said that during an exploration activity in Mount Malingudo, the...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Wednesday, May 27, ordered rescuers to continue search and rescue (SAR) operations at the collapsed building site in Angeles City, Pampanga, reversing an earlier shift to retrieval operations announced by disaster...
The Angeles City government on Monday night stopped search and rescue operations after no more signs of life were detected in the collapsed nine-story building. Four people were killed, 26 were rescued alive, and 17 are still missing in the tragedy. Authorities will go on retrieval operations...
Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) K9 rescue teams joined the search for missing construction workers after a nine-story building that was under construction collapsed in Angeles City, Pampanga, an official said on Monday, May 25. PCG spokesperson Commodore Noemie Cayabyab said the Coast Guard K9 teams...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) said it mobilized a 38-man response team to sustain round-the-clock operations following the collapse of a nine-story building under construction in Angeles City, Pampanga, which caused casualties and prompted extensive search and rescue operations. In a statement,...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) wants to find answers on why that building in Angeles City collapsed “in the interest of truth and accountability” but for now, Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr. said the main focus is to save as many lives. Nartatez said they deployed a sufficient number...
