September 10, 2021
Para el Mar
Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Support Network
Warm ecological greetings to the Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Support Network! I truly love being in the company of people I no longer have to convince to campaign for nature.
I speak to you all in the company of these experts as a legislator. Last year, I spoke at a webinar along with Dr. Gretchen Daily and that event led to my filing of the PENCAS bill, the proposed Philippine Ecosystem and Natural […]
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September 10, 2021
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 […]
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September 10, 2021
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 […]
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September 9, 2021
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) […]
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September 8, 2021
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 […]
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