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==Padre Burgos LGU leads multi-sectoral crown of thorns massive collection== | |||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1301329971265 | |||
*Thursday 23rd of February 2012 | |||
:by (PIA8-Southern Leyte) | |||
PADRE BURGOS, Southern Leyte, Feb. 23 (PIA) -- The local government is leading a campaign to rid the coastal areas here of a deadly specie of starfish that poses a threat to the town’s tourism industry and also to the livelihood of marginal fisher folk, Agriculturist Juliet Crisostomo said. | |||
The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), a coral-eating underwater creature, has been blamed for destroying a partial stretch of coral reef in this dive destination. If the destruction is left unchecked, the number of divers who frequent the site is likely to diminish, affecting local tourism, he said. | |||
Fishermen living along the coasts who depended on fishing as their main livelihood have already complained that fishes have migrated to other places as a result of the loss of coral material in the area, Crisostomo said. | |||
The campaign has resulted in more than 3,000 COTS averaging 12 inches in diameter being collected before noon Wednesday and later buried across the street. Called “Dap-ag Lanay” locally, COTS are differentiated from normal starfishes, which are star-shaped, in that the former have thorny projections resembling a crown. | |||
Their proliferation is reported to have resulted from the absence of natural predators such as oysters and some species of fish that feed on them. Overfishing and climate change have played in part in the imbalance, by reducing the population of the COTS natural enemies. | |||
Divers from private dive businesses, fisher folk from the neighboring barangays, and several personnel from the Coral Cay Conservation (CCC), a non-government organization from Britain stationed at Barangay Napantao, San Francisco, helped in collecting the COTS from the sea floor, Crisostomo said. | |||
Over the past month, seven out of 10 coastal barangays of Padre Burgos have already collected more than 50,000 pieces of COTS. Three other barangays have separate schedules of COTS collection in March, he added. | |||
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*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1301329861200 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1301329861200 | ||
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The two bridges at the city proper usually caused a bottleneck in the traffic for pedestrians and moving vehicles especially during rush hour of the day, and their widening is seen as a big relief for commuters, said Engr. Manolo Rojas, assistant district engineer. | The two bridges at the city proper usually caused a bottleneck in the traffic for pedestrians and moving vehicles especially during rush hour of the day, and their widening is seen as a big relief for commuters, said Engr. Manolo Rojas, assistant district engineer. | ||
Other projects that were already bidded out and were started last month included the widening and installation of drainage system along the new national highway Tomas Oppus street in Barangays Mantahan and Mambajao, Maasin City, and improvements in the San Ricardo-Bilatan road, and preventive maintenance along Daang Maharlika highway. (BP-PIA 8 Southern Leyte) | Other projects that were already bidded out and were started last month included the widening and installation of drainage system along the new national highway Tomas Oppus street in Barangays Mantahan and Mambajao, Maasin City, and improvements in the San Ricardo-Bilatan road, and preventive maintenance along Daang Maharlika highway. (BP-PIA 8 Southern Leyte) | ||
==CENRO-Maasin City targets 300 hectares for greening program this year== | ==CENRO-Maasin City targets 300 hectares for greening program this year== | ||