WINASAK NG CHINA ANG CORAL REEFS NG PILIPINAS NASAAN CONDFIDENTIAL FUND?

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So ito po meron inulat dito yung PCG at ito po sinasabi na China ay sinisira ang coral reefs sa ating karagatan, nasakop ng ating Exclusive Economic Zone.

So bago tayo magbigay ng reaksyon ay babasahin muna natin ang kabuuan nitong naturang ulat mula sa isang legitimate news agency.

So the Philippines says, it has identified a culprit, China's shadowy maritime militia. China has rejected the accusation, setting up another public disagreement with its neighbor over a flashpoint waterway.

Videos released Monday by Philippine Coast Guard showed a vast patch of bleached corals along the Ruzul Eroquios Reef and Sabina Escoda Shoal in the South China Sea, which are underwater features within the country's internationally recognized Exclusive Economic Zone or EEZ.

Both reefs are near Palawan, the Philippines' southwestern island chain fronting the South China Sea, but Beijing claims most of the large and strategic waterway as its own territory despite competing claims by neighbors and in defiance of an international ruling.

Commodore J. Tariella, a Coast Guard spokesman, said divers had carried out underway surveys of the seabed and described visible discoloration that indicated deliberate activities meant to modify the natural topography of the terrain.

The continued swarming for the indiscriminate illegal destructive fishing activities of the Chinese maritime militia in the Ruzul Reef and Escoda Shoal may have directly caused the degradation and destruction of the maritime environment in the West Philippine Sea, features Tariella said in a statement referring to Manila's name of parts of the South China Sea within its jurisdiction.

Tariella said between August 9 and September 11, the Coast Guard monitored 33 Chinese vessels within the vicinity of the Ruzul Reef and around 15 Chinese ships near Escoda Shoal. The presence of crushed corals strongly suggests a potential act of dumping, possibly involving the same dead corals that were previously processed and cleaned before being returned to the seabed.

The Philippine militia last Saturday also accused China's maritime militia of massive destruction in the area. Chinese authorities did not comment publicly on the accusations until Thursday, when the foreign ministry was asked at a regular daily briefing about the destruction of the corals.