Department of Environment and Natural Resources
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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.
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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.