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March is Women’s Month!
Anchored on this year’s theme “We Make Change Work for Women”, the celebration aims to highlight the empowerment of women as active contributors to and claimholders of development. This pursuit of development is also anchored on the commitment of “Malasakit at Pagbabago” or True Compassion and Real Change. The Biodiversity Management Bureau – Gender and…
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Keeping Manila Bay Healthier and Cleaner
These children are swimming in Manila Bay – famous around the world for its breath-taking sunsets. Sadly, it is also notorious for its polluted water, stinking smell, and coastline flowing with trash. Manila Bay inadvertently serves as one of Metro Manila’s dump site where sewage from households, industries, and agriculture flow untreated and unchecked. Solid…
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Raising Voices for Wetlands at Wwd 2019
CANDABA, Pampanga – The distinct footfalls of our carabao companions are drumming up the first light of day. Every sled is packed full of storytellers, with cameras ready, long lenses attached, reporters’ notebooks on hand. Twenty minutes into the ride, and the sunlight reveals the full height of Mt. Arayat enveloped in morning mist. By this…
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The Katunggan Ecopark: the Power of Collective Action
The Katunggan Ecopark in Leganes, Iloilo is an excellent example on how communities, government agencies, and international organizations can come together and help each other in conserving and protecting our environment. The Ecopark started as an area filled with abandoned, underutilized, and undeveloped (AUU) fishponds used for milkfish growing and production. After a strong typhoon…
