“Empowering Grassroots towards Strengthening Resilience”

MANILA, 13 September 2021 — The 61st episode of “Stories for a Better Normal: Pandemic and Climate Change Pathways” featured the stories and narratives of people strengthening their efforts and implementing risk resiliency programs to address the impacts of climate change in their communities through the Cash-for-Work project of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
The online conversation conceptualized and hosted by three-term Senator, now Deputy Speaker and Antique Representative Loren Legarda, with co-host Atty. Ipat Luna, was joined […]

Loren todo-suporta sa pangangalaga ng kalikasan

Kaisa si Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda sa pangangalaga ng kalikasan, partikular ang mga protected area sa bansa para mapanatili ang natural na ecosystem ng Pilipinas.
Kaya naman sa pakikipagtulungan ng three-term senator sa Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Biodiversity Management Bureau (DENR-BMB), sila’y naglunsad ng isang documentary series na pinamagatang ‘Our Fragile Earth: Protected Areas of the Philippines’ na inere sa ANC.

Bukod sa documentary, inorganisa din nina Legarda at DENR-BMB ang isang webinar series na may titulong ‘Protected Areas Talk’.

Ang ‘Our […]

A deeper look into ‘Our Fragile Earth’

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Biodiversity Management Bureau (DENR-BMB), in partnership with Antique Representative Loren Legarda, has completed the third season of “Our Fragile  Earth.”
Now airing on the ABS-CBN  News Channel (ANC) until Sept. 12, the show will highlight eight (8) Protected Areas (Pas) from Central Luzon, CALABARZON, Davao  Region, and SOCCSKSARGEN.
These include the Pujada Bay Protected Landscape and Seascape, Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape, Quezon Protected Landscape, Amro River Protected Landscape, Talaytay Protected Landscape, Simbahan-Talagas Protected  Landscape, Dinadiawan River […]

Foreign, domestic investments not needed to protect nature — Legarda

The Philippines does not necessarily need neither foreign nor domestic investments to protect nature.
For environmentalist and House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, Filipinos can conserve the environment even with nature-based solutions and renewable energy.
“We don’t even need foreign investments for this because we can do it,” the lawmaker said Thursday, Sep. 9, in an online press conference hosted by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), “You know, nature based solutions, we don’t have to complicate it.”
According to Legarda, harvesting […]

DEPUTY SPEAKER & ANTIQUE REP. LOREN LEGARDA’S ‘OUR FRAGILE EARTH’ NOW ON ITS THIRD SERIES ON ANC

LOREN LEGARDA is one legislator who is fiercely protective of our endangered environment. I really love watching the show as I feel like I’m traveling.
I will never get to visit in my lifetime all the protected areas that you feature like the Apo Corral Reef in Mindoro. Napakaganda. Very enlightening. Very educational.
In the ANC docu series “Our Fragile Earth”, she features the protected area in our country to strengthen public awareness on how to maintain ecological balance and enhance biological […]