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DENR lauds Villar SIPAG for its environmental advocacies

Published Feb 16, 2023 02:20 pm

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-National Capital Region (DENR-NCR) has given recognition to the Villar SIPAG Foundation for its initiatives to conserve, maintain and advance a healthy environment.

DENR-NCR thus awarded a Plaque of Recognition to the Villar SIPAG for its invaluable support to its program, projects and activities in the metropolitan area.

The Villar SIPAG Foundation was established by the family of Senator. Cynthia A. Villarr.

The Plaque was received by Villar, who delivered the inspirational message during the DENR-NCR Stakeholders and Partners Forum with the theme "Environmental Partnership for a Sustainable Future" held at Radisson Hotel in Quezon City last Feb. 15.

In her message, the lady lawmaker related that the Villar SIPAG has always served as a 'significant vehicle' in pursuing some of her worthy environmental programs and advocacies.

Being at the frontline of environmental protection, Villar spelled out some of the programs of the foundation. They are the following:

- The “Sagip Ilog Para Sa Kinabukasan” project has greatly contributed to the clean-up and rehabilitation of the two rivers in Las Piñas- Zapote River and the Las Piñas River and the waterways and esteros that flow to it.

- Livelihood enterprises that make Sagip-Ilog program sustainable and encourage many to remove the solid wastes in rivers.

- The protection and conservation of the Las Piñas Parañaque Wetland Park (LPPWP), a legislated protected area under Expanded NIPAS Act of 2018.

Villar SIPAG has been pouring in resources, and pursuing projects and activities that promote the protected area status and ecotourism functions of LPPWP.

A known champion of the environment, Villar said that their Las Piñas-Zapote River System Rehabilitation has won the United Nation’s Water for Life Best Practices Award in 2011 for its outstanding contribution to improve the living environment and its impact on alleviating people's quality of life within a metropolitan river basin.

Also in November last year, Villar SIPAG emerged as one the winners for environmental sustainability at the 23rd Energy Globe Award Ceremony. It received the 2022 Energy Globe National Honorary Certificate Award in recognition of its Las Piñas Kitchen Waste Composting Program.

While thanking the DENR-NCR led by Regional Executive Director Jacky Caancan for the award, Villar also acknowledged the other awardees for their tremendous work and outstanding efforts for the environment.

"After all, our good work for the environment should be a never-ending story . . . a lifelong commitment," Villar stressed.

"I wish that you could inspire more people to follow the good examples you have been doing for the environment," she added.

Villar also told them to encourage many others to take better care of the environment.

She emphasized that "it is only when there is a critical mass of environmental advocates that we could forge a genuine environmental partnership that will bring us to a sustainable future."

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