Addressing climate change has never been more urgent than when Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report found that climate risks are emerging sooner and will worsen faster than anticipated, making adaptation more difficult with rising global temperatures. Low-income...
According to a recent study conducted by Plastic Polluters, “The Philippines disposes more plastic waste into the ocean than any other country, with 3.3kg per person every year.” Meanwhile, the World Bank reported that the Philippines generated a staggering 2.7 million tons of plastic...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will work with the Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) and the Jollibee Group Foundation (JGF) Inc. on the reforestation of mangrove areas in communities situated near the popular fast food chain. JFC and JGF aim to engage volunteer employees...
Australian start-up founder Mike Smith, with some 240 Taguig volunteers, cleared over 100,000 kg. of waste in the Taguig-Pateros river in 15 days. The project was a collaborative effort between Smith and DENR-NCR’s estero rangers, the Lake and River Management Office, the City Environment and...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-6 (Western Visayas) said a Visayan leopard card, locally known as “maral,” was recently rescued in Mambusao town, Capiz province. The animal reportedly attacked chickens in a rice field owned by farmer Lony Salaya in...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will evaluate abandoned, undeveloped, and underutilized (AUU) fishponds to identify potential sites for mangrove development. This, after an environmental group and scientists urged the government to convert all abandoned fishponds into...
Senators on Tuesday, April 9 welcomed the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR) decision to fully cancel its 2004 agreement with the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) that awarded them 353 hectares of land protected area in Surigao del Norte province. This,...
Officers and members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Incorporated (SBSI) led by Jey Rence Quilario, popularly known as Senior Agila, are now being evicted in the 353-hectare Siargao Island Protected Landscape and Seascape (SIPLAS) in Surigao del Norte. This, after the Department of...
Sen. Raffy Tulfo has filed a resolution raising the issue of conflict of interest in the duties of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga regarding her family's alleged ownership of about 40,000 hectares of land in the towns of Coron and Busuanga...
Senator Maria Lourdes Nancy Binay has criticized the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) over its complacency and negligence during Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) meetings which led to the building of structures in protected areas. Binay said the DENR ought...
The plan of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to cancel an agreement that gave birth to the Masungi Geopark Project will only benefit people and groups that have quarrying and swimming pool business interests in the 2,700 hectares of land in Rizal province, the Masungi...
DAVAO CITY – Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga, Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, and Presidential Assistant for Eastern Mindanao Leo Tereso Magno have conducted a field assessment of resorts near the foot of Mount Apo here. MOUNT APO...
