(Note: This was originally posted in the Sun.Star website's special page Good Earth.) My friend Jhay and I went out of town for a special assignment. We boarded a bus bound for Oslob town in Cebu and left the Cebu City south bus terminal around 3 a.m. of Wednesday. Oslob in southern Cebu is now [...]
Tag: Whale Sharks
Mayor: Krill buying is fishers’ responsibility
CEBU CITY -- The local government of Oslob, Cebu is not giving counterpart funds for the purchase of the whale sharks’ food despite earning from the tourism activity. Oslob Mayor Ronald Guaren said Thursday that the biggest share of the earnings from whale shark watching in the town goes to the fishermen because they are [...]
Whale sharks’ food scarce
(A story I co-produced with fellow online journalist Jhay-ar A. Book for the Sun.Star website at http://www.sunstar.com.ph) CEBU CITY -- A fishermen's group in a village in Oslob town, Cebu, spent nearly P2,000 a day for krill or "uyap" to be fed to whale sharks, which have been drawing tourists to this sleepy town since [...]
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