THE Supreme Court yesterday ordered the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Protected Area Management Board, and other government agencies to stop issuing new permits for fishpen operations at Taal Lake in Batangas.
The High Tribunal granted the petition filed by a party-list solon seeking the issuance of a Writ of Kalikasan to protect the lake.
Court administrator and spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said the magistrates issued the writ during its regular executive session held every Tuesday.
Petitioner AGHAM party-list Rep. Angelo Palmones said there were 76 migratory and many endemic species recorded in the lake in 1927, but the number has dwindled over the past 50 years.
Based on the group’s recent inventory, only 15 migratory and four endemic species remain in the lake. They said in 2003 the catch of tawilis, the most popular endemic specie at Taal Lake, dropped by 80 percent.
Palmones said fish kill that happened at the lake last year affected at least 2,105 metric tons of fish worth P148.7 million.
Published : Thursday May 24, 2012 | Category : Provincial | Views : 23
AFTER the successful implementation of motorcycle lanes on EDSA and Commonwealth Avenue, a lawmaker proposed the enforcement of the same in express lanes like the North Luzon Expressway and South Luzon Expressway. Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile filed House Bill 6136 seeking to protect motorists and to provide them safe entrances... Read more
Published : Thursday May 24, 2012 | Category : Provincial | Views : 23
JOINT elements from the Laguna Police Office in San Pedro and the Parañaque City Police Office yesterday arrested a notorious “kasambahay” (housemaid) who is wanted for several robbery incidents in Metro Manila. Supt. Kirby Brion Kraft, San Pedro chief of police, in his report to Laguna provincial police director, Senior... Read more
Published : Thursday May 24, 2012 | Category : Provincial | Views : 24
By : Zaida delos Reyes-Palanca
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Published : Thursday May 24, 2012 | Category : Provincial | Views : 19
By : George Hubierna
CAMP Macabulos, Tarlac City -- Police arrested three persons for illegal possession of firearm and stealing fighting cocks at the Gil Cera Farm in Bgy. Camangaan, Moncada, Tarlac. In a belated report, Tarlac police director Senior Supt. Alfred Corpus identified the suspects as Roel Ocampo Francisco, 48, married, of Maybancal,... Read more
Published : Thursday May 24, 2012 | Category : Provincial | Views : 21
By : Zaida delos Reyes-Palanca
A BOY was killed while his mother was critically wounded when unidentified suspects peppered their house with bullets the other night in Masbate. The fatality was identified as Jonel Monleon Escala. His mother, Mary Joy Escala, 36, was rushed to the hospital for treatment. Reports reaching Camp Crame showed the... Read more
