The World Bank has urged Philippine implementing agencies to focus on completing the long-delayed Metro Manila Flood Management Project amid signs of progress and with less than six months remaining before its financing expires. In a June 7 implementation status and results report, the...
Malacañang has condemned the trash-dumping incident outside the office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Davao City, calling it a "blatant disrespect of law." Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro even called it "trash behavior." Castro...
The Philippine government has formally entered into a partnership with Dutch-based non-profit The Ocean Cleanup, signing a five-year agreement aimed at removing floating waste from the Pasig River and the introduction of low-cost innovative technologies for a rigorous scientific data exchange and...
DAVAO CITY – Authorities recovered 53 native and exotic wildlife species in a joint law enforcement operation Barangay Maribulan, Alabel, Sarangani province on Thursday, June 4. A report from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region 12, personnel of the Community...
The E nvironmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-EMB) denounced the dumping of garbage outside the department 's regional office in Davao City, saying it violated environmental laws and undermined efforts to rehabilitate the city’s...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region XI on Friday, June 5, denied claims that President Marcos ordered the suspension of operations at the Davao City Sanitary Landfill (SLF), saying the decision was made at the regional level following a deadly trash-slide incident....
DAVAO CITY – The dispute over the closure of the New Carmen Sanitary Landfill here escalated on Thursday, June 5, after piles of garbage were dumped outside the Department of Environment and Natural Resources–11 office to stress its effects on garbage collection services across the city. The...
Citing the ongoing cumulative impact assessment being conducted by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), a fisherfolk group has opposed the reported resumption of several reclamation projects in Manila Bay, warning that the developments could worsen flooding and threaten...
Hundreds of trees along Roxas Boulevard have become the focus of public debate. Around 245 have already been cut, while 355 more are scheduled for removal under a permit issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEX), a project...
San Miguel Corp.’s tollway unit said its tree-clearing operations along a major Manila thoroughfare comply with government environmental mandates, seeking to defuse local opposition to a multi-billion peso infrastructure project aimed at easing the capital’s notorious gridlock. In a statement,...
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Juan Miguel Cuna has ordered the automatic activation of Regional Operation Centers (OPCENs) nationwide whenever disaster warnings are issued, saying “every minute counts” in protecting communities from environmental hazards and...
The cutting of trees affected by the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEX) Project was undertaken only as a “last resort” after mitigation and conservation measures had already been considered, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said on Thursday, May 28. In DENR’s...
