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Monday 26th of November 2012
QUEZON CITY, Nob 26 (PIA) - - Sa National Ecosavers Program (NEP), kabataan ang pangunahing kikilos para sa malinis na kapaligiran.
Ang NEP ay magkatuwang na programa ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Education (DepEd), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), at ng Galing Pook Foundation na naglalayong turuan ang mga kabataan na mapangalagaan ang kanilang kapaligiran.
Dahil na rin sa lumalalang problema ng basura sa Metro Manila kaya unang ipatutupad ang NEP sa abot sa 763 na pampublikong elementarya at sekondaryang paaralan dito.
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03Feb2012CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela, Feb. 3 (PIA) -- City government officials are set to meet today to draft an action plan in preparation for the onset of La Nina this year. City planning and development coordinator Oliver Francsico said that the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has predicted that there is a possibility of the onset of La Nina this year and it will be felt during the second to third quarter of this year. Francisco said the city g...
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01Feb2012QUEZON CITY, Feb. 1 (PIA) -- Joint operatives from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (DENR-CENRO) Calapan and elements of the Philippine National Police caught a truck (wing van) with plate no. RTJ-331 loaded with undocumented forest products at San Antonio, Calapan City Pier, Oriental Mindoro. As reported to the Regional Executive Director (RED) Concordio D. Zuñiga, the truck was loaded with undocumented...
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24Jan2012CEBU CITY, Jan. 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR7) is set to donate and turn over confiscated forest products without court cases to the Department of Education (DepEd7). With an estimated value of P613,944.24, a total of 36,593.76 board feet of Mahogany, Gmelina, Bagalunga, Makaasim, Molave, Narra, Teak, Sangilo and Acacia lumber pieces, were found to be free from all liens and encumbrances with no cases filed in court, according to the DENR. ...
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17Jan2012DUMAGUETE CITY, Jan. 17 (PIA) -- The German Development Corporation (GIZ) and the provincial government of Negros Oriental, together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), recently signed a memorandum of agreement to sustain partnership in forestland management. Under the agreement, the GIZ will provide P100 million grant for technical and financial support to the province’s effort to protect and preserve forest cover in its Forest Land Use Plan (FLUP). The ...
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07Jan2012TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Jan. 7 (PIA) -- Bohol governor Edgar Chatto urges local government units (LGUs) in the province to find creative solutions in waste management and garbage problem or Bohol government may be sued administratively for failure to comply with Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Program. Chatto admits that “no LGU in Bohol could sufficiently say they have complied with the provisions of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Law.” &n...
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31Dec2011KORONADAL CITY, Dec. 31 (PIA) -- Besides being careful with injuries that firecrackers could inflict on irresponsible and careless users, the public should also be concerned with the pollution as massive use of firecrackers and fireworks could cause to the environment, an official of the regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-12) said. Mila Calungsod – Locsin, information officer of DENR-12, said level of poll...
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20Dec2011KORONADAL CITY, Dec. 20 (PIA) -- Local government units in Soccsksargen Region or Region 12 are extending help to victims of tropical storm Sendong. Among those who have responded to calls for assistance are South Cotabato, General Santos City, and Sarangani Province. South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Y. Pingoy Jr. during the Christmas party of the provincial press corps last night, said the Sangguniang Panlalawigan has “approved in principle” his request for a P1.5 millio...
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16Dec2011CEBU CITY, December 17 (PIA) --- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has confiscated over 440.8 cubic meters of forest products from January to November 2011, estimated to cost P13.436 million. DENR regional executive director Maximo Dichoso said, thse are in violation of PD-705 or the Forestry Code of the Philippines and DENR Department Administrative Order # 97-32. “The confiscation was undertaken due to the absence of transport documents from its origin, and ...
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15Dec2011MANILA, Dec. 15 (PIA)-- The Philippine experience in land administration and management has been featured as an example of successful solution in supporting rural and agricultural development during the 2011 Global South-South Development Expo. The Expo, held December 5-9, 2011, at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy attended by close to 250 high-level delegates, featured the Second Land Administration and Management Project (LAMP2) of the Ph...
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15Dec2011KORONADAL CITY, Dec. 15 (PIA) -- Personnel of the Provincial Environment Management Office (PEMO) of South Cotabato have seized 75 sacks of gold ore illegally transported from mineral-rich Barangay Kematu in T’boli town on Tuesday. Engr. Siegfred Flaviano, acting provincial environment management officer said, the ore were sequestered at the PEMO checkpoint in Kematu around 6:00 p.m. on December 13 after those who transported the materials failed to present ore transport permit an...
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07Dec2011KORONADAL CITY, Dec 7 -- The tarsier research and conservation project in barangay Linan, South Cotabato will resume on Dec. 9, the municipal government of Tupi announced. Statement from the office of Tupi Mayor Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. said, Dr. Pierre Fidenci, president and founder of the conservation group, Endangered Species International (ESI) arrived in November to prepare the logistics for the coming of four researchers that will study the habitat of the primates inside the Mt. Matutum Protec...
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04Dec2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, Dec. 4 (PIA) -- Unified Task Force Iponan signed a Memorandum on Agreement (MOA) against illegal mining on Dec. 1, at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), region 10. The MOA defines the respective roles and commitments of every agency or line agencies and the local government units (LGUs), and map out the operational plan for the apprehension and confiscation of illegal mining activities in the area. Director ...
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02Dec2011KORONADAL CITY, Dec. 2 (PIA) -- Some 1,600 geckos rescued in a raid in General Santos City are now back into the wild. SSupt. Albert Ignatius Ferro, regional director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG-12) in an interview with a local radio station here said personnel from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and CIDG released the geckos (tuko) in an area near the famous Seven Falls in Lake Sebu, Sou...
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02Nov2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, Nov. 2 (PIA) -- At least nine local government units (LGU’s), in region 10, have forged a memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), for the computerization of their land records, as of May, this year. Covered by for computerization are the land records of a total of 13,068,398 parcels of lands, Paquito D. Melicor, Jr., Regional Director of the Land Management Bureau (LMB), DENR-10, sai...
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06Sep2011KORONADAL CITY, Sept 6 (PIA) -- Officials of the local government units, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), mining firm Sagittarius Mines Inc., and three people’s organizations recently signed a memorandum of agreement for the protection and management of upland forest areas in Tampakan town. The agreement for an Adopt-A-Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) project is being implemented in accordance with President Benig...
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30Aug2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug. 30 (PIA) - - The city government of Zamboanga recognized the tourism efforts of the Zamboanga Adventure Tourism and Eco Recreation Society (ZATERS), a multi sectoral group being lead by the Philippine Information Agency 9-Department of Tourism-Department of Environment and Natural Resources (PIA-DOT-DENR) and SPELEO-Zamboanga. In its first year anniversary held over the weekend at the city’s favorite hang-out park-Paseo Del Mar, Mayor Celso Lobregat in his keyn...
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01Aug2011KORONADAL CITY, Aug 1 (PIA) -– Panay Elementary School in Sto. Niño, South Cotabato and Tulunan National High School in Tulunan, North Cotabato were recently declared Most Sustainable and Eco-friendly Schools in Region 12 in elementary and secondary levels, respectively. The regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region XII through the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), which also declared Notre Dame of Marbel University in...
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17Jul2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, July 17 (PIA) – Secretary Ramon Paje of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has called on the officials of local government units (LGU’s) in the country to study their geo-hazard maps. Paje sounded the call during a recent Communication and News Exchange (CNEX) Forum held at the Philippine Information Agency, Quezon City, aired over Radio ng Bayan, and NBN 4 Channel. The Secretary, who is a member of the Climate C...
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13Jul2011TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 13 (PIA) -- A wounded Philippine Eagle was retrieved recently by the Department of Natural Resources (DENR) in Calbiga, Samar. According to the reports gathered by the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) from the DENR Regional Eagle Watch Team (REWT), the mighty bird was found at Brgy Buluan in Calbiga, Samar by a group of hunters named Pastor Abanag, Abar Galvez and Noynoy Mabahin. It was also learned that the eagle was seen weak and stressed due to a...
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08Jul2011CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, July 8 (PIA) -- Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Region 3 bared yesterday that it had accomplished 99 percent of its target in the “Use it or Lose it” policy a year after its implementation. MGB Central Luzon information officer Flor Miranda revealed that they were able to review and process 237 out of the 240 mining applications submitted and from these, only 13 were endorsed to the head office for approval. Most of the denie...
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01Jul2011CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, July 1 (PIA) -- Around 60 farmers and community organizations from the upland and lowland areas of Central Luzon joined the recently concluded 1st Agrikultura Trade Fair (ATF) of the Departments of Agriculture (DA), Agrarian Reform (DAR), and Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in SM Megamall. Among Region 3’s products that were featured include garlic and onions harvested by DA-assisted farmers; veggie pancit canton noodles, minasa, pas...
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28Jun2011ILOILO CITY, June 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Western Visayas is urging all residential landowners to apply for a free patent or land title for their claimed properties. An occupant of a public residential lot can apply and get a free land title, under Republic Act 10023, or the Residential Land Patent Act of 2010. DENR-6 Regional Executive Director Julian Amador said RA 1003 includes the titling of residential lots where the...
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18May2011How would you like to be part of the government’s effort in reforesting 1.5 million hectares of the country’s degraded forest lands? Impossible as it may seem when we are in different places of the country. But, not anymore. With the National Greening Program’s website, anybody who wishes to volunteer may do so by registering on line. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)- IX chief Information Officer (IO) Roservirico Tan in a press statement said the NG...
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12May2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, May 12 (PIA) -- May is “Ocean Month” as declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 57 issued by former President Joseph Estrada on January 9, 1999 and since then relevant national agencies, local government and other government agencies have been conducting activities that highlight the conservation, protection and sustainable management of Philippine coastal and ocean resources. “To adapt to the devastating effect of the coastal and marine destructio...
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12May2011KORONADAL CITY, May 12 (PIA) -- A joint operation of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region 12, Provincial Environment Management Office (PEMO) and the South Cotabato Police Command yesterday confiscated 12,987.74 board feet of illegally cut logs in a warehouse in Barangay Tasiman, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. Forester Leonisa Alfaro, DENR-South Cotabato's Chief of the Community-Based Management Unit said, authorities raided a newly-bui...
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28Apr2011Zamboanga City, Apr. 28 (PIA) -- To underscore the importance of forests in the survival of human race, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) launched yesterday the National Year of Forests (NYF). With the theme “Forests for people,” the launching hopes to convey the message that people and forests has synergetic relationship wherein forests provide benefits to man and man must care for forests to continue being recipient of its benefits, says DENR Chief ...
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06Apr2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, April 06 (PIA) –- The public is invited to have a “different” kind of summer experience. Commune with nature and be one with the waves of the jungle. The Zamboanga Adventure Tourism and Eco Recreation Society (ZATERS) in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Philippine Information Agency (PIA), and SPELEO-Zamboanga is spearheading the conduct of “Summer Adventure Camp” set on April 9-10 at the Baluno Ecol...
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01Apr2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, Apr. 01 (PIA) –- The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) is successful in “cleansing” half of all pending mining applications filed in various regional offices nationwide, this according to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 9 Information Officer Roservirico Tan. Tan in a press statement said MGB central office Acting Director Leo Jasareno reported that the bureau was able to take action on a total of 1,150 mining applications, or 53 p...
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01Apr2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, April 01 (PIA) –- “There is a need for active support from the local government units (LGUs) to properly address the degrading water quality of rivers in Metro Manila and other urban centers nationwide.” This was underscored by Environment Assistant Secretary Analiza Teh. Teh made this emphasis during a forum held Thursday. Teh’s call was in line with the setting up of Water Quality Management Areas (WQMA) ordered by Department of Environment and N...
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29Mar2011DAVAO CITY, March 29 (PIA) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in the region clarified that Executive Order No. 23 is not imposing a total log ban, saying it is only declaring a moratorium on timber cutting and harvesting in natural and residual forests. Issued by President Benigno Aquino on February 1 this year, EO 23 which took effect on March 7 declared a moratorium on the cutting and harvesting of timber in the natural and residual forests of the entire countr...
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27Mar2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, March 27 (PIA) –- Close to 200 bikers from the various bikers association in the city showed strong support in the fight against global warming by riding on their mountain bikes during the world observance of Earth Hour, Saturday night (Mar. 26). Dubbed as "Earth Hour bike-riding beyond the Hour" the activity, organized and spearheaded by The Zamboanga Adventure Tourism and Eco Recreation Society (ZATERS) in partnership with the Department of Tourism (DOT) 9, Phi...
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24Mar2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, March 24 (PIA) –- In observance of Earth Hour, the Zamboanga Adventure Tourism and Eco-Recreation Society (ZATERS) and Lacuachero outdoor shop, in partnership with the Department of Tourism (DOT) and Philippine Information Agency (PIA), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and SPELEO Zamboanga is set to conduct “Earth Hour Bike, going beyond the hour” activity on March 26. The activity aims to raise the level of awareness on biking” as a...
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22Mar2011DAVAO CITY, March 22 (PIA) -- The civil society organizations (CSOs) in Davao Region have called for the enforcement of total log ban and the stoppage of plantation explansions in a bid to protect and preserve the environment from further destruction. This call came out in a recent interfacing activity with various private and public stakeholders which the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) spearheaded to discuss issues and concerns about the environment. The group cited th...
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19Mar2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, March 19 (PIA) -- The government, in partnership with private environmental network will soon launch Zero Basura Olympics (ZBO), an undertaking that will recognize best pratices of students and schools in solid waste management. ZBO will be jointly implemented by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), and Earth Day Network Philippines (EDNP), a private organization. Roservirico ...
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16Mar2011KORONADAL CITY, Mar. 16 (PIA) -- The regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the city government of Koronadal recently agreed to work together for environmental improvement of Bulok Creek. Bulok Creek, which cuts across the city center, poses problems to residents here since it overflows during heavy rains. DENR 12 Regional Executive Director Alfredo S. Pascual and Koronadal Mayor Peter B. Miguel recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding under the ...
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11Mar2011KORONADAL CITY, Mar. 11 (PIA) -- Mining has benefits too. This is the primary focus of an information-education campaign that the region 12 office of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural (MGB-DENR 12) is planning to conduct soon. MGB 12 Regional Director Constancio Paje Jr. said they are strengthening their information-education campaign to explain the benefits that communities can gain with the presence of legal mining operations in the...
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21Feb2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- The Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau (MGB) here has deferred from accepting and processing new mining applications following the directive of Environment Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Information Officer Roservirico Tan in a press statement said, Secretary Paje has directed all regional directors of MGB, an attach agency of DENR, to refrain from accepting and processing new mining applications nationwide, such as ...
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26Jan2011ZAMBOANG CITY, Jan 26 (PIA 9) – February 2 marks the international celebration of the World Wetlands Day (WWD). In the Philippines, this celebration is being spearheaded by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and is anchored on the theme “Forests for Water and Wetlands”. “In the regional setting, DENR through the Protected Areas Wildlife and Coastal Management Services (PAWCZMS) will undertake various activities to generate public awareness ...
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20Jan2011DAVAO CITY, Jan. 20 (PIA) – Bat conservationists are eyeing local community partnership in protecting caves used by bats as roosting places. “Caves are very good for bats. First there is a constant environment, it is dry and there is running water available,” said Nina Ingle, Philippine liaison officer of the Bat Conservation International, a group dedicated to the protection and conservation of these winged mammals. Ingle said that bat caves also give the bats a sanct...
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16Jul2010CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (16 July) -- Some 10,090.25 cubic meters (cu.m.) of wood products valued at US$2.291M have been exported by Northern Mindanao during the 1st quarter of 2010. This volume of wood exports was actually lower by 17.41 percent compared to 12,217 cu.m. exported by the region in the first quarter of 2009, but higher by 6.91 percent in value compared to US$2.143M, also in the same period. Of these wood exports, finished wood products posted an increase of 19.85 percent i...
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