Can drones or the eye in the sky help save our dwindling forests?
By MART D. SAMBALUD
Davao Today
“The bat cave conservation management plan will enable us to formulate and implement policies that will protect our bat caves from the abuses of some people who visited the caves for tourism and research purposes.” — Roderick Parcon, coordinator for the town’s Municipal Tourism Office
By DAVAO TODAY
Davao Today
Pagasa said the Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao and Caraga, as well as Mimaropa and Visayas, will experience cloudy skies with moderate to occasionally heavy rains and thunderstorms, “which may trigger flashfloods and landslides.”
By DAVAO TODAY
Davao Today
In its advisory at 2:55 PM, Pagasa noted the target areas which are the provinces of Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental, Bukidnon, Agusan Del Norte, Surigao Del Sur, Sultan Kudarat and the typhoon Pablo-hit Compostella Valley.
By DAVAO TODAY
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the rains will continue for the next three hours in Davao City, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat and Cotabato.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“With the continuing aftershocks, more reports on damages are documented. More schools and houses were confirmed destroyed,” said Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“Strong earthquakes which are tectonic will cause aftershocks until the energy dissipates. In the case of Carmen which was hit by shallow quakes, the energy of the quake has little chance to dissipate when it reaches the surface.” — Jenila de Ocampo, Officer-in-charge of the Davao Seismic Station-Phivolcs
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
According to Jerome Barranco, Assistant Director of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council-Office of the Civil Defense in Region XII, 60 houses were destroyed in Kimadsil village alone.
By DAVAO TODAY
Gov. Joey Salceda made the confirmation in a television interview. The fatalities were mountain climbers and a local tour guide.
By GILBERT L. PACIFICAR
Davao Today
“We should emulate the life of our lumad heroes who died in the struggle for defending the ancestral domain.” — Datu Monico Cayog, Kalumaran chairperson