MANILA, Philippines — Seabed quarrying activities in Manila Bay force fishers in Cavite to venture farther out to Bulacan or Zambales provinces, and look for other sources of livelihood, ...
In Part 1, we looked at how quarrying within permanent forest reserves (PFRs) became Selangor’s “accidental cash cow”. Six quarries within the Bukit Lagong forest reserve (BLFR) became top earners ...
The online petition hopes to evict a quarrying company from the area after it suddenly fenced off a portion of a site in Masungi Georeserve, hindering reforestation efforts MANILA, Philippines – ...
A quarry is a site where a stone or gravel producer extracts a variety of raw materials from the earth. Common types of material extracted in quarrying activities include limestone, granite and sand.
Stone quarrying has been going on in Western Ghat states despite there being a close link between hard rock quarrying and slope failures in the form of landslides, such as the one that devastated ...
Quarrying, like mining, is big business in resource-rich Karnataka but it has been overexploited, inflicting financial, environmental and social damages on the state ...