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Taal Volcano and Biodiversity
Taal Volcano’s latest eruption is not only damaging to the people, communities, and businesses that live and thrive in its vicinity. It is also harmful, if not fatal, to the diverse plants, animals, and ecosystems that can be found within this beautiful protected area. Established in 1967 as the Taal Volcano Island National Park, it…
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ADB, DENR, Academe Hold Seminars on Machine Learning to Track Online Illegal Wildlife Trade (LWT)
Whether you like it or not, we now live in the age of social media. With its practically limitless accessibility, anyone with internet connection can sign up and be part of a globally connected network where they can share just about anything. Unfortunately, this accessibility also makes social media a very hospitable platform to trade…
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Call for Applications for Membership to the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center Protected Area Management Board (NAPWC PAMB)
Pursuant to Section 11 of Republic Act 11038, otherwise known as the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 2018, this Office is calling applications for membership to the NAPWC Protected Area Management Board for the following: Application procedures and requirements for such vacancies are in the link found below: Procedures and Requirements for…
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DENR, UNODC and ADB/GEF Hold Workshops on Wildlife and Forest Crimes Indicators
Manila, Philippines – Are our institutions ready to respond to wildlife and forest crimes? This is the key question that law enforcement agents and legal practitioners sought to answer during a two-day workshop organized by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Biodiversity Management Bureau (DENR-BMB), with support from the United Nations Office on Drugs and…
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2019 Tamaraw Month
“Tamaraw at Ako: Dangal ng Pilipino. This is the theme for this year’s celebration of the Tamaraw Month. It reflects the aspiration of the Filipino people for the Tamaraw and the commitment to conserve, in behalf of humanity, this unique world heritage. The Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) is the largest land animal native to the Philippines, categorized as critically…
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Round Table Discussion on Mainstreaming Biodiversity in the Energy Sector
Last August 15, the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) organized a round table discussion on mainstreaming biodiversity in the energy sector at the Brentwood Suites, Diliman, Quezon City participated by numerous government officials including local government units, non-government organizations, and the private sector. The RTD was organized to gather relevant stakeholders to level-off and initiate relevant…
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BMB, Marina Conduct Seminar-workshop on Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention
MANILA – “Shipping should be in harmony with the environment:” This is the central message of the three-day Seminar-Workshop on the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention organized by the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in conjunction with the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA). The conduct of the seminar-workshop coincides…
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Dalaw-turo for Mommies
The Battle for Manila Bay continues. The BMB conducted its second Dalaw-Turo for the Tullahan-Tinajeros River system last May 25 – with a twist. We had children participants during our first Dalaw-Turo, this time we invited their mommies instead. But the message is still the same: if we want to clean-up Manila Bay, everyone should…
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DENR: Stronger Public-private Partnership Needed to Address Marine Plastic Pollution
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has called on the government, business sector and other stakeholders to work together to find the best solutions to plastic pollution, which has become one of the most serious threats to the health of oceans and a major hazard to marine biodiversity. DENR Assistant Secretary and concurrent…
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Mainstreaming Biodiversity in the Infrastructure Sector
In a 2018 The Guardian interview, Dr. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), said that biodiversity is the ‘infrastructure’ that supports all life on the planet. Dr. Palmer shares that, “Whenever we lose species through extinction, the web of life is destroyed and this affects the resilience…
