Paje assures ample supply but urges public to conserve water
By DJ Yap
Environment Secretary Ramon Paje on Saturday urged residents of Metro Manila to conserve water, even as he allayed fears of a looming water crisis in the peak of summer.
Environment Secretary Ramon Paje on Saturday urged residents of Metro Manila to conserve water, even as he allayed fears of a looming water crisis in the peak of summer.
The regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Southern Mindanao is investigating the alleged involvement of local government officials in illegal logging activities in Davao Oriental and neighboring provinces.
Where has the bulk of the gold gone? Environment Secretary Ramon Paje on Thursday said that “substantial smuggling” of gold out of the Philippines could explain the dwindling number of traders selling the yellow metal to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
Going green may be all the rage, but exactly how green are those projects? The Climate Change Commission is positioning itself as the Philippines’ “green auditor” that will evaluate the environmental projects being rolled out every year in terms of how these are helping save natural resources or preserve energy. The commission will take on [...]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) began distributing posters warning the public against gathering or selling gecko because it was illegal.
LUCENA CITY—Officials are reviving a campaign to bring life back to two rivers here that are all but dying after previous attempts to do so have died. Ofelia Garcia, chief of the city planning and development office, said at the launch of the “Rivers Resuscitation Program” that hopes are high the new campaign would succeed [...]
MANILA, Philippines – Despite a colleague’s warning against agitating China, Senator Gregorio Honasan said the Philippines should continue its patrolling of the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) if only to stress the country’s claim of the area. “Neither we should keep nor withdraw our warship there. We should continue patrolling,” Honasan said in a phone [...]
LAPU-LAPU City Mayor Paz Radaza called on the Oponganons to help the city government save its natural resources. Radaza encouraged them to clean and segregate their garbage as a way to help the government. She made her appeal during her 50th Charter anniversary message of the Lapu-Lapu City on Friday. Radaza said these resources were [...]
MORE investments will pour into Camotes Islands, Cebu once a bill rationalizing the management of the natural resources in the islands becomes a law. Rep. Ramon Durano VI (Cebu 5th district) said yesterday the bill would identify the “protected areas of Camotes Islands,” which he said were only 4,000 hectares out of the 20,000-hectare land [...]
Filipino and American scientists have discovered seven new species of mammals in four locations on the island of Luzon, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources announced Wednesday.
IBA, ZAMBALES—Residents of a coastal village in Botolan town are complaining that black sand (magnetite) mining operations there have been eating away the shoreline of their community, threatening to destroy their houses. “We have been complaining for a long time. Some of my neighbors are afraid already. We have approached [Department of Environment and Natural [...]
MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile on Monday sought the extradition of a couple linked into the alleged attempt to smuggle black corals and other marine products in the country. Enrile’s move came after the Senate failed to arrest the couple – Li Yu Ming (and not Joe Pring as earlier reported in the [...]
MANILA, Philippines — The Senate has failed to arrest the couple who had been tagged behind the unsuccessful attempt to smuggle some P35 million worth of black corals and other marine products. At the resumption of the hearing of the Senate committee on environment and natural resources on Monday, Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Jose Balajadia reported that [...]
