As the Department of Environment and Natural Resources celebrated its 34th anniversary, Secretary Roy Cimatu said his agency has made great strides in fulfilling its mission of protecting the country’s national resources despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
DESPITE the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) under the leadership of President Rodrigo Duterte has made great strides in fulfilling its mission of protecting the country’s national resources.
That was Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu’s assessment of the achievements of his agency as DENR celebrated its 34th anniversary last June 10.
In a speech read via Zoom, Cimatu boasted that the Covid-19 pandemic did not prevent DENR’s personnel and officials to continue to work to protect our environment and nature.
Cimatu said the Philippines’ air quality is now up to the standard at pm10 and pm 2.5, while the 43 priority rivers monitored by the agency in 2020, are close to 75 percent of the water quality standard for biological oxygen demand.
The secretary also cited the recent victory of the Environmental Management Bureau in closing down 100 percent of illegal dumpsites in the country.
The DENR through the Environmental Management Bureau has accomplished the establishment of a coalition of solid waste management providers, the first in the history of the DENR to bring together all sanitary landfill operators, for a good solid waste management country.
Meanwhile, the DENR chief thanked the employees and officials who worked hard to address the country's solid waste problem, especially national garbage collector Usec Benny Antiporda.
Cimatu added that Boracay is much better now than several years ago after its rehabilitation to restore the ecological integrity and natural beauty of the island. (SC)
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