Loren: Tree-cutting cause of Mindanao power crisis
Reelectionist Senator Loren Legarda has called for the creation of a body that would oversee the proper management of Lake Lanao amid the power crisis Mindanao is currently suffering from.
Reelectionist Senator Loren Legarda has called for the creation of a body that would oversee the proper management of Lake Lanao amid the power crisis Mindanao is currently suffering from.
Philex Mining Corp. is again being held to account, this time by government foresters, over a road that it allegedly built through a Benguet watershed without first securing the proper clearances, like an environmental compliance certificate (ECC).
Ahead of the official campaign season, candidates running in the May elections were once again reminded to spare the trees.
What better way to teach the importance of trees and love for the environment than by exposing the young to nature in their own school’s backyard?
What used to be an empty, rocky piece of land on this public school campus is now a haven for chirping birds during the day and the rarer fireflies at night. And don’t forget the stray cats.
Shopping mall giant, SM, is planting 330 new trees to replace 11 trees that had been sick since April.
A local court dismissed an environmental lawsuit that stopped the earth balling of at least 182 pine and alnus trees by a shopping mall here for an expansion project, ending for now a standoff that had affected all tree-cutting applications in the summer capital.
A court here has rescued 486 trees from being cut or transferred when it issued a 72-hour temporary environment protection order (Tepo) against a permit issued by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. for a road-widening project of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Pampanga.
Environmentalists on Thursday resumed painting human figures and the word “Help” on trees due to be cut by the Department of Public Works and Highways to expand the Manila North Road (MNR) in the cities of Angeles and Mabalacat in Pampanga.
After hitting the target to plant 1 million trees, the Visayan Electric Company (Veco) continued to plant more trees in the Cebu Central Protected Landscape (CCPL). Last Sept. 22, 70 Veco employees (kaibigans), led by senior vice president and chief operating officer Sebastian Lacson, trooped to sitio Lamakan in barangay Pamutan, Cebu City to plant [...]
Charcoal production using wood products is now banned in Quezon province, the ban’s proponents linking mangrove depletion to an increase in demand for charcoal, particularly by stores in Metro Manila selling roasted pigs.
A TOPPLED tamarind tree barred vehicles from entering S. Osmeña Street in sitio Vican, barangay Gun-ob Lapu-Lapu City amid a heavy downpour that started at 10 p.m Tuesday and lasted until 9:30 a.m yesterday. Traffic personnel diverted oncoming traffic to another route while engineering crews sent by Lapu-Lapu City Hall cleared the tree at 10 [...]
Three employees of a billboard company were arrested Monday night after they were caught cutting down 11 balete trees on the center of Edsa in Balintawak, Quezon City.
