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Eco groups press for passage of expanded bill on protected areas

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL MANICANI Island is a small fishing community in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, where Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) made its first landfall in 2013 and took away thousands of lives in a span of four hours. A trove of chromite and nickel ores, the 11.7 square-kilometer island of 3,000 people has attracted

Eco groups press for passage of expanded bill on protected areas