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The environment department is looking at the U.S. in a bid to expand efforts to rescue and conserve the Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi), the critically endangered national bird. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu raised the possibility after his department recently sent a pair of Philippine eagles to Singapore for breeding […]
Livelihood and investment opportunities will be created nationwide with the planned ban on the country’s importation of recyclable wastes. Such a ban will create demand for local recyclables that will replace imported ones that cement makers and power plants use as fossil fuel alternative — presenting income-generating and business opportunities in sourcing and segregating trash […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is tightening its grip on garbage — including recyclables – which are being shipped into the Philippines. “We’ll prepare a department order banning all garbage coming from any other country,” DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu announced updating the department’s personnel in Quezon City about plans of the department […]
A total of 400 truckloads of garbage and silt from Metro Manila waterways and drainage systems were collected by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) as part of the Manila Bay rehabilitation program. The MMDA said its Flood Control and Sewerage Management Office (FCMSO) has hauled 3,018 cubic meters of trash and silt during its […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) isn’t discounting the possibility of eventually ending Philippine importation of waste-based processed engineered fuel (PEF), an alternative to fossil fuel used in cement production. DENR is looking into possible production of PEF in the country so cement producers can buy the product from local sources instead of […]
The Philippine government has made history in its bid to prevent the extinction of the Philippine eagle while helping enhance diplomatic relations between the country and Singapore through conservation of the country’s endemic but critically endangered raptor. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) recently formalized the wildlife loan agreement on lending a pair […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 4-A (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) is encouraging candidates in the recent elections and their supporters, as well as local communities, to upcycle their election campaign materials. DENR 4-A Executive Director Maria Paz Luna said they fully support the call made by the Department of the […]
Positive changes are visible in the world-renowned island resort of Boracay, a year after its government-initiated environmental rehabilitation, the head of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu noted that the coliform level in Boracay’s waters these past months has been at 40 most probable number (MPN) per 100 […]
Efforts to rehabilitate Manila Bay are beginning to bear fruit. According to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu, he has received reports that swimming is already possible in some areas of the bay off Bataan province. “We’re improving in terms of cleaning up Manila Bay,” Cimatu said in Quezon City after […]
Residents living along major waterways in Metro Manila are being urged by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to become environment-conscious by not throwing trash in creeks and rivers to help fast-track the cleanup of Manila Bay and its tributaries. During the cleanup of the Maytunas Creek in San Juan City’s Barangay Addition […]