Albay-based Mavic Conde reports on the link between the environment and agricultural livelihoods. Her desire for solution-focused data reporting is as strong as her dream to become a digital nomad, even though she still gets confused with left and right.
Albay-based Mavic Conde reports on the link between the environment and agricultural livelihoods. Her desire for solution-focused data reporting is as strong as her dream to become a digital nomad, even though she still gets confused with left and right.
“Brownouts and power interruptions have historically been linked to election fraud — disrupting transmission, exposing vote counts to tampering, and endangering teachers and other frontliners who guard the people’s votes.”
As part of Manila Bay, Bataan's proximity to the country's capital made it an appealing industrialization site, resulting in the reclamation of its rich marine coastlines which drew migrant fishers to the province.
"The arrest is something, a message to the leaders that impunity is not forever."
Meanwhile, Oceana acting vice-president Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio reminds local government officials and all enforcement agencies to continue fulfilling their statutory mandate to protect the 15-kilometer municipal waters from commercial fishing operations.
“Two years is already long overdue. We call on the IOPC, RDC Reield Marine Services, Inc., San Miguel Corporation and its subsidiary, to give the affected fisherfolk the compensation that they deserve."
The Philippines’ worst municipal fish output in 2024 mirrors the decade's plunging trend
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more part of our lives, a coalition of civil society groups calls for an end to tech companies’ reliance on fossil fuels to protect the planet.
Days before Kristine (international name: Trami) developed into a severe tropical storm, the Philippine Sea was warmer than usual. Under the warming climate, the typhoon-prone Bicol Region is more vulnerable with decimated forests. Both Camarines Sur and Albay saw a net loss of tree cover from 2000 to 2020, according to Global Forest Watch.
"We might need semi-dam dikes to hold the river's water capacity, while the Bato Lake needs desiltation. But our urgent need is to block the side of the river with collapsed dike," Mayor Domingo Escoto Jr. said.
For a breadwinner in a five-member family in Metro Manila, this falls short of P686.49, as the family daily living wage in NCR is P1,190, according to the economic think tank IBON Foundation.
Minimum wage earners in five regions earned less than P300 a day in January 2023, and less than P310 in 2024, after inflation.
Sigwada, according to a statement released by national fishers’ group Pamalakaya, forces municipal fishers “to suspend their fishing operations due to big waves and strong winds.”
On World Environment Day, land rights advocates revisit the government’s role in supporting a farmers’ seed system to boost the country’s agricultural industry.
Months of investigation by Bulatlat revealed that the booming commercial tuna industry in General Santos City, dubbed the Philippines’ “tuna capital,” favors industrial scale commercial fishing fleets at the expense of the livelihood of thousands of ordinary fisherfolk.
Second of two parts What secure land tenure means and looks like for organized agrarian reform beneficiaries under the climate crisis. CONCEPCION, Tarlac — Alberto Cawigan is now 65, nearly double his age when he was supposed to receive his land share. He...
Protecting agrarian beneficiaries through secure land tenure is climate justice, as it recognizes the disproportionate impacts of climate change on these vulnerable groups while also seeking solutions that address its root causes.
The innovation of raising crablets in Gubat, Sorsogon is caught in the middle of a government ban, serving as a litmus test for local officials on how to support community-based ventures.
Seagrass is often a casualty of mangrove rehabilitation programs in the Philippines. This coastal town in Sorsogon province is no exception. It has the Bicol region's largest mangrove ecosystem at 1,034 hectares as a result of decades of community management backed by its local governments and other agencies.
"Fisherfolks are all for development, but they hope such development would not sideline them and only benefit a few. Why not develop and nurture the fishing industry instead?"
“How can a cooperative help us if we will be working for minimum wage and have payables for the next seven years?”
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