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DENR to intensify forest protection in upper Marikina river basin

Published January 11, 2021, 2:35 PM The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 4-A has expressed strong opposition to the illegal activities in Masungi Georeserve located within the Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape (UMBRPL) in Rizal province. In a statement, DENR-Calabarzon, together with the DENR Office for Special Concerns, Environmental Protection and Enforcement Task Force, Rizal Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office, and Philippine National Police vowed to enforce intensified forest protection activities, such as continuous conduct of the Lawin Forest and Biodiversity Protection System, a web-based mobile application to patrol the area. It also committed to enhance the National Greening Program (NGP) sites with continuous planting of indigenous tree species.

DENR plants 35 6-M seedlings, covers 95 percent of 2020 target

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (MANILA BULLETIN) This is a 95-percent accomplishment of its 2020 target of 47,166 hectares under the Enhanced National Greening Program (ENGP), the government’s flagship reforestation initiative. “We are on track to reach or even exceed the 100-percent mark as we are now gradually increasing targets for plantation establishments,” DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu said. “We are also doubling our efforts in protection and maintenance to increase the survival rates in plantation sites established in prior years,” he said. From 2017 to 2019, protection and maintenance efforts have been undertaken in some 369,371 ENGP plantations.  These were accomplished with the involvement of some 5,876 peoples’ organizations (POs) as partners.

ACB at PH Senate hearing: biodiversity conservation is key to disaster risk reduction

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, Dec. 11   The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)  provided its inputs to the Philippine Senate’s inquiry on strengthening the protection and conservation of the country s forest cover and waterways to mitigate the effects of natural hazards. The ACB, an intergovernmental body mandated by the 10 ASEAN Member States to facilitate joint programmes on biodiversity conservation, attended the virtual Senate hearing of the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change on 10 December 2020, joining other officials from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) led by Secretary Roy Cimatu, and representatives from the local government units of Cagayan, Isabela, and Marikina, and from private sector, including the Masungi Georeserve in Marikina.  

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