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Changes to fish stocks have had a direct impact on the country's marine life. Find out more.

Once completed, Mali’s bones will be displayed at the Davao museum for at least three months

A proposed US$400 million China-funded bridge could wipe out the rich marine ecosystem of Paradise Reef, one of the few healthy reef areas in the Philippines’ Davao Gulf.

Published June 27, 2021, 6:25 PM A few days before Davao City approved an ordinance banning single use of plastic, it got an unexpected visit from a rare whale along its seas. The Davao office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) captured on video a rare Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) while traversing the seas between Ligid Island of Davao Del Norte and Kopiat Island of Davao De Oro on June 12. Davao City’s no single-use plastics law seems momentous for the thri...

CCP president and NCCA chairman Last Nov. 24, 2018 B.C. (before Covid-19), I was sitting with ordinary Dabawenyos at the RMC Gymas we were being regaled with another enchanting evening of music by the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of its Music Director and Principal Conductor Yoshikazu Fukumura.  Even before I assumed the position of president of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), I was already a staunch supporter of the PPO. I believe in the power of music to c...