UN Report: Philippine Coral Reef Endangered
A United Nations backed report titled “Reefs of Risk Revisited” jointly issued in Washington and London, included the coral reef system among 27 other countries considered vulnerable to degradation.
A United Nations backed report titled “Reefs of Risk Revisited” jointly issued in Washington and London, included the coral reef system among 27 other countries considered vulnerable to degradation.
In what could be considered an all-important and a well-timed press release by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), came under a banner heading of “Grad students in Sciences increase”.
In a recent pep talk with SLDE Publisher, a serious worker who knows his job and manages will to make his paper the ONLY regional newspaper which comes out everyday, Mr. Macy C. Grafil relayed to this writer the many e-mailed messages/letters he received containing positive comments on the articles appearing in this humble column “As I write On Science”.
As 2010 comes to a close, this column attempts to capture some activities related to fisheries R & D activities that took place in Region 8.
Lest this revelation not ‘scares’ away future potential East Visayan researchers, just as in any professions, being a biology researcher has risks to contend with.
The bullets that felled Dr. Leonardo Co and his companions in Kananga, Leyte province, had left a void to the already depleted and anemic population of active Filipino plant scientists.
The recently concluded 5th Fisheries R & D Congress of the Society of Fishery Technologists of Eastern Visayas (STFEV) and hosted by the Visayas State University at Tolosa, succeeded in espousing the dire need to inject and support research and development efforts to discover authoritatively the wonders and potentials that the aquatic ecosystem of Region 8 hold.
From a credible source manned by equally credible personalities came the grim picture of the Philippines should the National Dispensation fails to craft jiffily effective adaptation measures on climate change.
Is this possible? With the very tragic experiences of the Ormoc and Burauen floods and the Guinsaugon killer landslide, it is about time that Leytenos are awakened to the realities of the time! No more to taking natural hazards for granted.
The Philippine National Committee for Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) and DIVERSITAS, play hosts to the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, with an International Conference and Scientific meeting on November 20, 2010 at CHED Auditorium, UP Campus, Diliman, Quezon City.