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Palaui Island, Santa Ana, Cagayan (Photo courtesy of DENR-Region 2) TUGUEGARAO CITY - The world-famous Palaui Island in Cagayan province is open again to tourists starting Tuesday after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. At the height of the health crisis in 2020, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) provided PHP1 million to fund the emergency employment of about 160 families in the island. Officials of the DENR, Department of Tourism, Cagayan Economic Zone Authority, local government, and other members of the Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) led the ribbon-cutting ceremony to signal the reopening of the 8,048-hectare Palaui Island Protected Landscape and Seascape (PIPLS) in Barangay San Vicente, Santa Ana, according to a Facebook post. The PAMB is the decision-making body of the PIPLS, a protected area legislated by virtue of Republic Act 11038, or the expanded protected areas system law. DENR Region 2 Executive Director, Gwendolyn Bambalan, said the re ....