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 […]
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 […]
Protected areas (PAs) encompass the most biologically significant and pristine forests, freshwater and marine ecosystems of the country that serve as assurance for economic, cultural and ecological sustainability for the present and future generation.
Since the passage of Republic Act No. 7586, or the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act of 1992, and its amendments under Republic Act No. 11038, or the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System (ENIPAS) Act of 2018, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) […]
The victory was made possible by architects, as well as a farming community in Bulacan.
Bayanihan, the Filipino tradition of mutual support within a community, has proven that if we come together, anything is possible—even a win at the prestigious Venice Architecture Biennale.
This is exactly what Filipino architect Sudarshan V. Khadka Jr. and Norwegian architect Alexander Eriksson Furunes—along with Framework Collaborative, which consists of members from the Gawad Kalinga Enchanted Farm community in Angat, Bulacan— achieved at the recently concluded international […]
The mission to promote Filipino indigenous culture and heritage goes on for the award-winning documentary series “Dayaw” with the launch of its 11th season on ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel, last month. We must commend those behind the show, which documents hitherto taken for granted life-ways, traditions, and practices of the country’s indigenous peoples (IPs).
This is the passion and brainchild of Deputy House Speaker Loren Legarda and the production team of ANC and the National Commission for Culture and the […]
