Comments on: My Turtles & Manta Are Gone https://pummkin.net/2007/03/my-turtles-manta-are-gone/ I'm not here, I'm underwater...! Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: seacam https://pummkin.net/2007/03/my-turtles-manta-are-gone/#comment-2793 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:05:23 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=192#comment-2793 Sorry, one more thing – I enjoy the songs from your blog site. Sometimes I use them as background music.

Cheers!

]]> By: seacam https://pummkin.net/2007/03/my-turtles-manta-are-gone/#comment-2791 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:03:51 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=192#comment-2791 You have been a busy girl – marking around with servers and what not.

I have had talks with some of the authorities in charge of ‘educating’ the fishermen but it seems like a very slow (maybe even reluctant) process in getting the conservation message to them. Yunno, lah. Gov’t agencies. It will be good if NGOs and divers help spread the message.

One encouraging news is that at Lankayan, the owners have taken the initiative to protect the reefs around their area by offering the fishermen some other alternative source of income (eg. working for the dive resort)

My gut feeling is that we will see our marine resources ending up in the same state as our forests. It’s all for some quick bucks. Sad!

]]> By: pummkin https://pummkin.net/2007/03/my-turtles-manta-are-gone/#comment-2721 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:24:40 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=192#comment-2721 Thank you, Moggie! This was sent to all the press rooms & I thought what better way to perpetuate the message than to put it here for all of you? It is your interest in my subjects that keeps me blogging.

Seacam & Antonio, your comments are lost in my server migration which took me several days to import, export, reupload & reconfigure. At the point of your posting, I was viewing the site using two separate computers at the same time but pointing to the different servers. You have commented on the old server!!! Nevertheless, I’ve read them, and thank you for sharing my displeasure in seeing our sees raped & plundered. Even if it happened in the Philippines, I will still be just as upset!

]]> By: moggie https://pummkin.net/2007/03/my-turtles-manta-are-gone/#comment-2706 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:20:58 +0000 http://www.pummkin.net/pitch/?p=192#comment-2706 read about it in nst and star with total and utter disgust. when will they ever learn…

p/s lovely images, pummkin.

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