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Luis “Junyee” Yee, Jr.: A Portrait of an (National) Artist as Filipino Photo by Richie Macapinlac. 2021 ARTIST’S PROFILE   I first met Junyee when I was a student at the University of the Philippines in the early seventies. Together with some artist friends, we would later visit him when he began living in the campus of UP, Los Banos, which has become his home and a source of indigenous materials and inspiration for the site-specific installations for which he became widely known as the pioneer of installation art not just in the Philippines but in Southeast Asia. Those were halcyon da...

10 Most Beautiful Flowers in the Philippines Author: Here are 10 of the most beautiful flowers in the world! Beautiful Flowers Found in the Philippines The Philippines is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Despite its small size, it is one of the 18 mega-biodiverse countries in the world, which include large nations like Brazil, China, India, Australia, and the United States. It ranks fifth in the number of plant species and maintains 5% of the earth's flora. It has 10,045 kinds of vascular plants (a group of the kingdom Plantae where conifers, ferns, and angiosperms belong). The lar...

The sharp increase in the number of resorts in Laguna the past few years has been worrisome as far as the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is concerned. WATER-INTENSIVE BUSINESS--Resorts flourish in Laguna, but their effects on the sustainability of the Mount Makiling waters

Don't show me this message again✕ Kirk Taray holds onto a bat that was caught on a mist net as Ryan Llamas holds up a torch during field work at Mount Makiling in Los Banos, Laguna province, Philippines (Reuters) Researchers wearing headlamps and protective suits race to untangle the claws and wings of bats caught up in a big net after dark in the Philippine province of Laguna. The tiny animals are carefully placed in cloth bags to be taken away, measured and swabbed, with details logged and saliva and faecal matter collected for analysis before they are returned to the wild.

Located within the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus, the Botanic Garden features native and non-native trees and lesser-known plants and flowers. It’s a special treat for plantitos and plantitas.