The decomposing bodies of two men, believed to be in their early twenties, were found along the hiking trail of Mt. Makiling inside the campus of the University of the Philippines in Los Banos (UPLB) on Thursday.
Tighter security measures were being sought at the University of the Philippines–Los Baños in the generally peaceful town in Laguna province after a female college student was murdered near the vicinity of the campus.
A long-tme forest steward in Mt. Makiling has a message to people or groups whose way of helping the environment is through tree planting. “Enough of the statistics,” says Dr. Jose Sargento, 63, head of the forests and watershed division of the Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystem (MCME). “We (too) have to nourish (the trees [...]
