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How far is Puerto Princesa, Palawan from Manila and what flights are available?
Puerto Princesa, the capital city of Palawan, is just an hour's flight from Manila. There are three to four flights a day before the influx of tourists since the Puerto Princesa Subterranean National Park (PPSRNP) became one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature. As of August 2012, the number of flights reached 29. Four airlines serve the route namely Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, Zest Air, Air Philippines, and Air Asia.
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Environmental Issues and Cases in Palawan
Case 4 - Family Protection of Coral Reef in Snake Island
Aggressive and vigorous campaigns to conserve the environment through community-based initiatives bear fruit. Fishers who appreciate the importance of conserving natural resources can go great lengths to help realize the goal of sustainable development. One such case is a family living in Snake...
Case 2 - Gleaning the Gleaned: Coping Behavior of Palaw'ans to Climate Change
The brunt of climate change impact has caused a major change in the way of life of the indigenous Palaw’ans of Culasian in southern Palawan in the Philippines. The peaceful and mostly isolated group of Palaw’ans saw their crops eaten by multitudes of rats out of nowhere during the driest months...
Case 1 - Palaw'an Ingenuity: Mini-Hydro Using Indigenous and Waste Materials
The author visited a community of indigenous people in Sitio Bohoy, Bataraza as part of a research project on forest ecosystem. He was amazed at what he saw. A simple but working hydroelectric power plant was built out of the ingenuity of a Palaw'an, one of the indigenous people of Palawan in the...
Case 3 - Marangas: The Enchanted Island
Even in the age of information, many people still believe in supernatural things and beings. The existence of supernatural things and beings lie in the realm of the unexplainable; things that baffle people in a certain way and cause them to act in a certain direction. What people think and...