The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) IV-A is burdened with difficult tasks as they try to minimize the environmental harm of urban and economic progress in the region.

DENR IV-A acts on environmental concerns

Just last March 19, San Miguel Corp. confirmed it was dropping the Pasig River Expressway (PAREX) project (which made environmental groups so jubilant and victorious).

So PAREX is on, after all

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources is intensifying its fight against the use of plastic through the Earth Day Every Day Project, a plastic collection competition among students nationwide.

Youth urged to fight plastic pollution

Starfish slowly killing reefs

Southern Leyte Seas Battle Old Foe

𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦, 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚 𝐠𝐨

A 2,000-hectare Floating Photovoltaic (FPV) or floating solar plant in Laguna de Bay, with 1880.5 megawatts that can power over two million homes is no small feat but so are the possible economic, social, and environmental implications of such a giant project.

Killing a dying lake

Business tycoons battle over water right

Business tycoons have shown interest to vie for the 112 new water rights granted by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to improve the impounding capacities of the country to store rainwater, which otherwise falls just to the seas and oceans.

Water grab is on 

The principal mandate of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is to ensure the preservation and conservation of all natural wonders of the country– protected areas and natural parks.


DENR to blame for illegal Bohol resorts

“Ang ganda ng Region 8,” Lormelyn E. Claudio of the Department of Natural Resources (DENR)-8 said on Tuesday in a press conference held in Tacloban City.


Harnessing the Riches of the Local Ecosystems

SM City Santa Rosa is now “powered by the sun!” SM Supermalls recently unveiled what it called the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) system at the SM City Santa Rosa last April 29, leading SM Supermalls in sustainability.

Solar power for SM City Santa Rosa

Last Monday, June 3, UP Visayas and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region VI (DENR VI) marked a significant step in preserving the natural heritage of Western Visayas. 
A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed to document the natural heritage of Panay and Guimaras as part of the Cultural Mapping of Panay and Guimaras Project. The initiative was further extended to Negros Occidental through another MOA with the Department of Education (DepEd) Region VI.

UP Visayas, DENR Collab  on Cultural Mapping 

𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞

Department of Environment and Natural Resources

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