OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar We have been in some form of quarantine since March 15, 2020. I cannot remember all the acronyms (GCQ, ECQ, MECQ) assigned to the different levels of restrictions because they have mutated so much just like the COVID-19 variants. And starting...
A project seeking to protect communities in Benguet province against forest fire hazards by using Maguey (Agave cantala) as greenbelt is now being implemented, the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar We seem to be caught in an unending Groundhog Day-like cycle of surges and lockdowns. We would experience a surge in new daily COVID-19 cases — similar to the one that hit us around March and April this year when daily cases reached a high...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNO) is offering security training programs for forest rangers following the attack on two forest guards of the Masungi Georeserve in Rizal on July 24. He said the attack on the two forest rangers of Masungi Georeserve was not...
Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) has called for an independent investigation on the shooting of two forest rangers of the Masungi Georeserve on Saturday night, July 24, noting that the incident practically occurred under the cops' noses. (Photo by Max Kleinen/...
The Masungi Georeserve conservation organization reported late Saturday night, July 24, the shooting of two of its forest rangers at their reforestation site in Sitio San Roque, Barangay Pinugay, Baras, Rizal. (Photos from Masungi Georeserve Facebook page) A Facebook post from the non-profit...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar It is true what Indian writer Anita Desai once wrote: “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” Going to other places are not temporary destinations where you merely stop and go. They stay with you — the beauty and the...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar A statement released by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and picked up by various news organizations has stirred the pot among Filipino netizens online. In the statement dated July 9, 2021, the DTI’s Bureau of Philippine Standards...
More local entrepreneurs are producing the Department of Science and Technology-Forest Products Research and Development Institute’s (DOST-FPRDI) bamboo-framed face shields. The Department of Science and Technology-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) develops in 2020...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar In my column last June 16, 2021 entitled “Can elections be meaningful in a pandemic?”, I discussed the imperative for our election officials to learn from the lessons of countries who decided to push through with democratic elections...
The Department of Science and Technology-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) launched Monday, July 5, the state-of-the art Technovation Hub, which seeks to benefit entrepreneurs venturing on furniture, woodcraft, housing and bamboo musical instruments production....
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), through the Forest Management Bureau (FMB), is drafting an Executive Order (EO) that will elevate to national strategy status its efforts to regulate, rehabilitate, and develop the country's watersheds. A statement showed that the EO will...
