Manila’s new white sand coast is a threat to marine life, groups say

Mongabay
Sep 13, 2020, 8:30 pm232 pts
MANILA — Philippine authorities’ latest efforts to clean up Manila Bay, one of the country’s most polluted bodies of water, has come under fire after they dumped truckloads of white sand over the shoreline at the end of August. Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno celebrated what he called a long-delayed…

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