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SIERRA MADRE DEV’T AUTHORITY CREATION PUSHED

Rizal 4th District Rep. Fidel Nograles renewed his call for the passage of a bill that would create a body tasked with conservation and management of the 500-kilometer-long Sierra Madre. This, after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday called attention to deforestation in the Sierra Madre, which he saw during an aerial inspection over Marikina […]

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CUA TO DENR: PLANT MORE NATIVE, FRUIT TREES

Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines president and Quirino governor Dax Cua expressed his support for the environment department’s plan to increase the country’s forest cover by an additional three million hectares by 2028 to minimize the effect of climate change. “We wholeheartedly support this program, and in fact I would like to call […]

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LA UNION PAROLEES JOIN REFORESTATION DRIVE

The Provincial Government of La Union signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the La Union Province Parole and Probation Office (LUPPO) in fostering ecological integrity and a clean and healthy environment. This is in line with the provincial government’s #KalikasanNaman Campaign. The MOA signing took place at the La Union Provincial Capitol lobby, City of […]

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CUA URGES LGUS: BUILD ‘GREEN WALL’ VS TYPHOONS

Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines president and Quirino Governor Dax Cua on Monday urged local government units across the country to build a “green wall” for protection against natural disasters. As Super Typhoon Karding battered Luzon on Sunday, “Sierra Madre” had been among the trending topics on social media, highlighting the role of […]

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SMC PLANTS 3.8 MILLION TREES IN 3 YEARS

San Miguel Corporation’s (SMC) group-wide reforestation initiative nationwide has yielded 3.8 million trees since 2019 to date, even as it recently completed planting over 26,000 trees in Angat, Bulacan together with the town’s Dumagat communities.  The initiative is among SMC’s major environmental sustainability projects aimed at helping address the impacts of climate change through the […]

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NOGRALES: YOUTH SHOULD LEAD RE-GREENING MOVEMENT

The youth should take the lead in providing solutions to environmental issues such as flooding and re-greening as they are “the generation that will literally inherit the planet in the next few decades.” This is what Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles said as he along with more than 1,000 youth from Montalban embarked on […]

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NOGRALES LAUNCHES ‘SAVE OUR FORESTS NOW’ PROGRAM

Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles this week launched the Save Our Forests Now program in a bid to encourage the youth to become more proactive in protecting the environment. The solon, along with more than 200 students from Colegio de Montalban, University of Rizal System, as well as San Mateo Municipal College, planted 1,000 […]

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Government

DENR, ARMY RESERVE GROUP RENEW PACT TO PROTECT CALABARZON FORESTS – CIMATU

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has partnered anew with a Laguna-based Army reserve group to boost its reforestation and forest protection efforts in the CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) region amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The 4th Regional Community Defense Group-Army Reserve Command (RCDG-ARESCOM) has renewed its partnership with […]

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Government

USE BAMBOO AS WOOD ALTERNATIVE – CIMATU

Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has made a fresh pitch for Filipinos to consider planting and using bamboo as alternative to wood in order to help increase the country’s forest cover. Cimatu said that even the government is now shifting to planting bamboo under its flagship reforestation initiative – the Expanded National Greening Program (ENGP). “Our […]

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LETRAN JOINS NATIONAL GREENING PROGRAM – DENR

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has gained another partner in its National Greening Program (NGP), the government’s most ambitious reforestation bid so far. DENR and private school Colegio de San Juan de Letran-Manila recently signed the memorandum of agreement covering the school’s participation in the NGP, said Dexter Villa, DENR development management […]