A century after the 1918 Spanish Flu, the most recent coronavirus brought the whole world to its knees as it ate more than nine months of the year 2020 spent in home quarantines and social distancing. Palawan had managed to surf through the waves of occasional local transmission cases, now muddling through reopening its economic sectors in a careful balance between health and survival.
While it’s not entirely clear how this Philippine pangolin (Manis culionensis) wound up on a golf course, the most likely explanation is that it had escaped from the wildlife trade. In the Philippines, pangolins are a protected species, and anyone caught trading them faces hefty fines and prison sentences of up to 12 years. But this hasn’t stopped traders from stealing pangolins from the Palawan region and transporting them to various towns and cities to sell them for meat consumption or medicinal use.
TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring group, said in a press release dated August 4 that there is an alarming increase of pangolins seized from illegal traders.
The city government is proposing a multi-level steel parking structure to be situated behind the Puerto Princesa City Coliseum to aid the traffic situation in the city, city mayor Lucilo Bayron said during the opening of tourism month on Wednesday.
Vehicular accidents top Narra's recorded incidents during the first half of 2019, according to the Narra Municipal Police Station (MPS).
Data showed a total of...
