Environment

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Using his small boat, fisherman Cristino Estrada goes around Tubajon Aquamarine Park’s 22 hectares of mangrove plantation and bamboo cottages to check if there are no pieces of garbage left behind by resort goers. The aquamarine park has won the cleanest coastline last year and will be one of the stops of the delegates attending the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines to be held in Cagayan de Oro and hosted by the provincial government of Misamis Oriental and the Department of Tourism-10 on Oct. 3-6. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Cagayan de Oro among contenders in ‘One Planet City Challenge’

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Five Mindanao cities, including Cagayan de Oro, were chosen to qualify for this year’s One Planet City Challenge (OPCC), an environmental initiative organized by the…

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Read more about the article Farmers’ group accuses Bukidnon environment officers of brokering CBFMA land deal
Farmers from Barangay Pagan, Kitaotao, Bukidnon, till the land for planting dinorado rice early in the morning. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Farmers’ group accuses Bukidnon environment officers of brokering CBFMA land deal

A farmers’ group leader accused three environment officers of brokering a deal that would allow a multinational company to utilize a huge tract of land currently occupied by residents under the government’s community-based forestry management agreement in Bukidnon.

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Read more about the article Fuel firm, ‘green’ group team up in ‘waste-to-brick’ project in Cagayan de Oro
Reynaldo Digamo (3rd from left), Environmental Management Bureau-10 regional director, takes a look at the mixer, one of the machines used to produce eco-bricks. With him is Norbel Saa (2nd from left), Macabalan barangay chairperson, and Leland George Llamazares (right), terminal operations manager of the Pilipinas Shell Northern Mindanao import facility in Cagayan de Oro. (Jigger Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Fuel firm, ‘green’ group team up in ‘waste-to-brick’ project in Cagayan de Oro

As the volume of garbage continue to mount and threaten the global ecosystem, turning discarded materials such as plastics into something useful has been one of the advocacies of environmentalists and zero-waste management proponents.

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Read more about the article Bukidnon residents file complaint vs feeds plant to Oro gov’t
A worker sprays disinfectant on the pile of garbage to eliminate odor and repel flies at the sanitary landfill in Barangay Pagalungan, Cagayan de Oro Thursday (Jan. 30). The city government plans to allow nearby municipalities to dump their trash here for a fee. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Bukidnon residents file complaint vs feeds plant to Oro gov’t

Village officials in Bukidnon filed a complaint against a feeds processing company that allegedly emits foul odor for the third time in six years to the city government here.

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Read more about the article Oil spill in Misamis Oriental coast near extraction
Barangay volunteers of Lower Jasaan, Jasaan town, Misamis Oriental, clean up the oil spilled when a cargo ship sank Saturday morning, April 3. (Photo by Sabas Tagarda Jr.)

Oil spill in Misamis Oriental coast near extraction

The coastal areas affected by an oil spill from a sunken cargo ship is now slowly returning to normal, a village official said on April 19.

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