Browsing by Subject "watersheds"

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    • DENR designates 3 river systems as WQMAs 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 15, 2018, on page B-8)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has designated three river systems in Luzon and Visayas as water quality management areas (WQMAs) to keep the quality of water within the guidelines set for ...

    • DENR launches save watershed campaign 

      Flora, Ian Ocampo (SunStar Philippines, November 2, 2021, on page 2-11)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga launched recently the “Save Our Watershed” advocacy campaign in a bid to intensify the protection and conservation of forests ...

    • DENR names 3 more protected river systems 

      Villanueva, Rhodina (The Philippine Star, August 7, 2018, on page 7)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has named three more river systems as water quality management areas (WQMAs), bringing to 37 the total number of water bodies under policies for protection. In ...

    • DENR Region 2 rehabilitates 12 critical watersheds 

      Domingo, Leander C. (The Manila Times, June 4, 2020, on page A7)
      At least 12 critical watershed areas in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) were placed under priority rehabilitation by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) under the National Greening Program (NGP). Felix ...

    • DENR, GCash, WWF, Biofin to plant 365,000 trees 

      (The Manila Times, December 15, 2020, on page B11)
      IPO Watershed, which supplies fresh water to 20 million people living or working in Metro Manila, will be bolstered with hundreds of thousands of new trees next year.Through donations generated from GCash, the Department ...

    • 'Eco-rangers' train at Naujan Lake 

      Franco-Abanador, Rain Rhymes (The Manila Times, January 13, 2015, on page B8)
      Did you know that the science of climate change start with the sun? What have you done for the planet today? These are two of the questions I’ve encountered during my four-day “Eco-Ranger Training Workshop” last year at ...

    • Environmental science in focus at conference 

      Marticio, Marie Tonette Grace (Manila Bulletin, June 14, 2018, on page 6)
      Dr. Ryohei Kada, professor of Agricultural Economics at Shijonawate Gakuen University, in Osaka, Japan, and one of the keynote speakers, stressed the need for a deeper understanding of the relationship between environment ...

    • Face masks in River 

      Llemit, Ralph Lawrence G. (SunStar Philippines, May 20, 2021, on page 2)
      A local environmental group is calling for a regulation of recreational activities within the Panigan-Tamugan River after several solid wastes were recovered, including several face masks and face shields, during a clean-up ...

    • Fisherfolk laud DENR for mining shutdowns 

      Terrazola, Vanne Elaine P. (Manila Bulletin, February 18, 2017, on page 2)
      A fisherfolk group has lauded Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Gina Lopez for revoking the mining agreements of 75 undeveloped mine operations near watersheds. The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang ...

    • Floods revive calls to rehabilitate Mindanao river basins 

      Francisco, Carmelito Q. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 21, 2020, on page A10)
      The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) has called on Congress anew to immediately pass a bill creating the Mindanao River Basins Rehabilitation and Development Authority (MRBRDA) as floods caused by Tropical Depression ...

    • GCash to help WWF Philippines on reforestation of Ipo watershed 

      Galang, Vincent Mariel P. (BusinessWorld, June 13, 2019, on page S1/2)
      Mobile money platform GCash has committed to help reforest 300 hectares of the 7,236-hectare Ipo watershed in Norzagaray, Bulacan. On June 10, GCash signed an agreement with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines for ...

    • Healing the water shed 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, April 22, 2015, on page 4-5)
      The metro Iloilo water district (MIWD) board is correct in focusing it's concern on the watershed as the main source of its potable water supply. The first thing fisherman engineering student is taught is to define understand ...

    • Holcim backs Davao river watershed conservation 

      (Malaya, February 22, 2013, on page A10)
      After the successful first run of a project to help conserve the Davao River watershed, Holcim Philippines has renewed its partnership with an environment group to train an indigenous community in the Marilog uplands on ...

    • Hoover Dam 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, April 3, 2018, on page 4)
      A stay in Las Vegas is not complete without visiting the historic and world-famous Hoover Dam which is only about 40 kilometers from The Strip. Lessons can be learned from this mega-dam in view of the start “kuno” of the ...

    • How vulnerable are WV's watersheds? 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA); PN (Panay News, August 27, 2010, on page 2)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), through its Ecosystem Research and Development Services (ERDS), is looking forward to cover all 11 critical watersheds in Western Visayas in its vulnerability ...

    • HS seniors help organize run for La Mesa watershed 

      (The Philippine Star, November 9, 2018, on page 20)
      Millennials are in the forefront of a sporting event that aims to highlight environmental awareness among city dwellers when the third and final leg of the Compressport Forest Run is held at the La Mesa Nature Reserve on ...

    • 'Invest in watershed protection initiatives' 

      De Los Santos, Maricyn A. (The Daily Guardian, November 21, 2016, on page 1-15)
      Private investors are urged to invest their resources in initiatives that will protect Panay’s watersheds. During the River Basin Organization “Investment Summit” held at Hotel Del Rio in Iloilo City on Nov. 18, 2016, Dr. ...

    • Killing watersheds, killing life 

      Dela Paz, Dean (Malaya, March 14, 2017, on page A2)
      The simplest, most graphic and perhaps the most eloquent argument against open pit mining is found, not in the voluminous academic dissertations where arguments encompass the spectrum from bludgeoned biodiversity and ravaged ...

    • Laguna Lake contractor gives in to new terms 

      (Manila Standard, September 25, 2010, on page A5)
      The Belgian contractor of the Laguna lake rehabilitation project bowed to the conditions of the Philippine government to include the reforestation of the Marikina watershed and the monitoring of a third party to oversee ...

    • Lake Sebu's coal 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 17, 2017, on page A13)
      Here’s the rub. Under Region 12’s land use plan, Ned is a watershed area. If mining goes irresponsibly, as what we have witnessed of late, people living in the barangay and close to it would hardly feel its implications. ...