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If she sells seashells by the seashore, you might want to check if these shells are illegal to be sold or taken. Gathering and collecting seashells. It is an activity that does not look harmful. Most of us loved doing it when we were kids and even now that we’re
2013 • 06 • 25 Jessie is a long-time Bantay Dagat and program coordinator of the Calatagan-based Conserve and Protect Oceans (CAPoceans) Foundation Training Center. He has contributed to over 10 years of coastal and marine protection efforts in the area. He’s so serious about his job that he keeps
Nothing is more convincing in making a person feel for the environment than to let him or her see firsthand the extent of destruction that man has inflicted on it. It was something that we realized immediately upon setting foot on Freedom Island, also known as the Las Pinas-Paranaque Critical Habitat
2013 • 06 • 05 Tired of your usual weekend activities (or non-activities)? Break the routine and do something different and significant this Saturday! June 8 is World Oceans Day. To celebrate the occasion, Earth Island Institute Philippines will be spearheading another coastal cleanup at the Freedom Islands. Aside from
2013 • 06 • 04 The Philippines will take part in the celebration of the Coral Triangle (CT) Day, an international event that aims to raise awareness on the world’s center of marine life, on June 9, 2013. Separate but interconnected projects will happen in the provinces of Palawan, Cebu,
2013 • 05 • 25 Wendi Garcia is the founder of Artists for Nature, an organization dedicated to the promotion of environmental awareness and support of conservation programs / various eco foundations through art. Wendi currently organizes art exhibit fundraisers and activities like coastal cleanups and free environmental art workshops
2013 • 04 • 17 “Our seas are integral to our survival.” Kester Yu is best known in the environmental circles for his passion, er, obsession with marine turtles. Known as “Kestertle” to his close friends, he is arguably one of the most prolific youth environmental champions of the Philippines.
2013 • 02 • 25 Katia Kalyani is the founder of Ocean Hour Philippines, the world’s first international weekly clean-up of Philippine waters. She started out as a volunteer for Ocean Hour, invited family members and friends to join, and eventually encouraged businesses to support their cause. She currently organizes
2013 • 01 • 25 Martin Jordan constantly looks out at the sea from the shore of the Dive Hub marine protected area (MPA), a 3000-sq.m. marine sanctuary in Siaton, Negros Oriental that he helped establish in 2007. This German expatriate and his small crew risk life and limb guarding
2012 • 12 • 30 Elaine Abonal absolutely loves surfing and looks at the sea as her second home. She shares this love with her huge social network and on “Surfista Travels”, through which she also actively asks others to help take care of the sea by not using plastic