Guimaras

And yet, every time there is an oil spill from offshore oil rigs or from oil tankers, the oil industry describes it as the result of exceptional circumstances -- Captain Hazelwood's possible inebriation on the Exxon Valdez, Hurricane Katrina, bad weather (for the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the disastrous Guimaras oil spill in the Philippines), or reckless navigation (when the Cosco Busan crashed into the San Francisco Bay Bridge).

Carl Pope: Strange Attractors on Parade 2010

And yet, every time there is an oil spill from offshore oil rigs or from oil tankers, the oil industry describes it as the result of exceptional circumstances -- Captain Hazelwood's possible inebriation on the Exxon Valdez, Hurricane Katrina, bad weather (for the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the disastrous Guimaras oil spill in the Philippines), or reckless navigation (when the Cosco Busan crashed into the San Francisco Bay Bridge).

Carl Pope: Strange Attractors on Parade 2010

Instead, rice stalks were attached to bamboo poles and used as makeshift brooms that successfully sopped up oil from the water near the coast, said Teresita Siazon, the coordinator of the civil defense council in the Guimaras province.

Gulf Oil Spill Remedies: Corks, Hair Are Among Suggested Ideas 2010

The municipal government of Nueva Valencia in the Philippine island province of Guimaras last year passed a resolution opposing the proposed mining exploration by the Fil-Asian Strategic Resources and Properties Corporation.

Mining for Answers in the Philippines 2009

Environmental groups and Guimaras residents fear that the project will threaten the natural resources of the island, which is still recovering from a massive oil spill in 2006.

Mining for Answers in the Philippines 2009

It is notable for its distinctive pattern of buff-coloured spots scattered across its dark brown back and sides.are found only in the central Philippines and before the herds dwindled through heavy hunting and rapid habitat loss, they were present on the islands of Cebu, Guimaras, Leyte, Masbate, Negros, Panay and Samar.

World’s Rarest Deer Found In Philippines | Impact Lab 2009

Filipinos are shearing their hair to help mop up a massive oil spill off Guimaras Island.

- Boing Boing 2006

The best Philippine mangoes, though, come from Guimaras, an island province in Visayas.

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The Visayan warty pig has been extirpated from Masbate, Guimaras, Cebu, and Siquijor and now lives only in isolated areas of Negros and Panay, where hunting of them is still intense.

Greater Negros-Panay rain forests 2007

The Philippine spotted deer (Cervus alfredi) has been extirpated from Guimaras, Cebu, and Siquijor and is now limited to the Mt. Madja-Mt.

Greater Negros-Panay rain forests 2007