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MAP urges holistic Laguna Lake rehabilitation for water security and eco-tourism
Laguna Lake is the largest freshwater lake in our country and among the largest in Southeast Asia. It is an ideal, logical, inexhaustible, and proximately-located source of fresh water for Metro Manila. It is well endowed ...
- May 28, 2019
Where’s the Boracay rehab plan?
Less than a week before the six-month closure of Boracay Island on April 26, 2018, the national government has yet to present a concrete rehabilitation plan. Sen. Risa Hontiveros said the inter-agency task force on Boracay ...
- April 21, 2018
Stakeholders to decide Boracay’s early reopening
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu on Tuesday said the early reopening of Boracay would depend on collaboration among the owners of the establishments affected by the road widening in the island and the crackdown on illegal ...
- July 11, 2018
PCCI supports ban on fishing permits for Laguna Lake
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is backing the government’s move to stop issuing fishing permits for Laguna Lake. In a statement, the country’s largest business group said it fully supports the ...
- December 31, 2016
MOA to protect El Nido signed
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the local government of El Nido in Palawan recently signed an agreement to protect natural resources on the island. Alexander Mancio of the El Nido-Taytay ...
- April 4, 2018
At home in Tambobo Bay
Emma Palallos was in her 20s when she first came to Tambobo Bay in the southern tip of Negros Oriental province in the late 1980s. This body of water shared by Barangays Bonbonon and Siit in the southern town of Siaton has ...
- July 19, 2020
Trip to Balinsasayao Twin Lake, an environmental advocacy
Several locations in our country have been named natural parks and ecotourism sites to promote the conservation of the natural environment, economic prosperity for the majority of stakeholders and community development. ...
- February 1, 2020
Dry run set ahead of Boracay reopening
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will hold a dry run on October 15 to 25 to find out what else needs to be done before Boracay Island opens its doors anew to tourists on October 26. Environment ...
- August 24, 2018
Boracay stakeholders commit implement sustainable practices
Some 30 business stakeholders in Boracay have pledged their commitment to immediately implement sustainable practices, in efforts to preserve the newly rehabilitated island. In an emailed statement, Ayala-led Globe Telecom ...
- December 29, 2018
Just 1 of 3 Boracay Businesss ready to re open
Only about a third of Boracay’s 440 hotels, resorts and inns are ready for the island’s reopening on Oct. 26, according to Interior Undersecretary Epimaco Densing, although this may still increase as establishments comply ...
- August 21, 2018