In celebration for the empowerment of women in our society, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region 10 (DENR-10) conducted the culminating activity for Women’s Month recently.                   The culminating activity was attended by officials and employees of the regional office with representatives from the different PENROs (Provincial Environment Natural Resources Offices) in Region 10. The theme of the celebration was “Weathering Climate Change: Governance and Accountability,...

  The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Region 10 (DENR-10) conducted the Re-orientation/technical briefing on the implementation of Forestry Information System (FIS) in Cagayan de Oro recently.                   The re-orientation had 44 participants from the regional office and FIS Focal and Alternate persons from the different PENROs (Provincial Environment Natural Resources Offices) and CENROs (Community Environment Natural Resources Offices).   The FIS program aims to gather information...

  Recent events brought the biodiversity conservation drive into the limelight as  a staff  of DENR-10 was asked to investigate a foul smell emanating from a flower. The phone call was from a local network, ABS-CBN 2 concerning a strange looking and foul smelling flower along the Provincial Road near barangay  Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro City.   It was learned that flower was thought to be another Rafflesia schadenbergiana, a rare and endangered species.  The investigation a team from the Protected  Areas, Wildlife  and Coastal Zone Management Service (PAWCZMS)...

  “Since barangay is the basic unit of the local government, community participation of DENR projects went back as early as the implementation of the Integrated Social Forestry Program in the late 1980s. Today, the National Greening Program which is a banner project of President Benigno S Aquino III continues to acknowledge the role of the communities in upland development. The National Greening Program (NGP) utilizes social mobilization as an appeal to community participation.”   She further stressed that these communities need crops and trees that will generate income in...

                    The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Region 10 (DENR 10) recently turned-over lot data and digitized maps to municipal officials of Manticao, Lugait and Naawan, Misamis Oriental.                DENR 10 Regional Executive Director Corazon B. Galinato disclosed that the partnership between DENR and the municipalities of Manticao, Lugait and Naawan, known as ManLuNa cluster also best exemplifies inter-government cooperation of the three municipalities. ...

  The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Region 10 (DENR-10) continues to operate the Regional Wildlife Rescue Center as a temporary shelter of confiscated, abandoned and/or donated wildlife.   Managed by  the Protected Areas,  Wildlife and Coastal Zone Management Service (PAWZCMS) of DENR 10, the  Regional Wildlife  Rescue Center was established to ensure the proper care of wildlife before its turn-over to other wildlife facilities or  its release to its natural  habitat.   It was reported by the PAWCZMS that in the last quarter of ...

              The City Government of Malaybalay has bestowed to DENR Regional Executive Director Corazon B. Galinato the Female Environment Leadership Award during its activities highlighting the International Women’s Day recently.   City Mayor Ignacio Zubiri of Malaybalay  and  Councilor Mya Analene Rosos – Tenorio awarded the plaque of recognition to Director Galinato. The search committee was headed by the Chair of the Committee on Women, Councilor Mya  Analene Rosos-Tenorio.    Director Galinato was cited “for...

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  “I urge every organization to help in rehabilitating and preparing the site before engaging in any tree growing activity, otherwise it will only be a futile effort.” This is the emphatic statement of Director Corazon Galinato of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Region 10 during the meeting today with a group of consultants from the University of the Philippines Los Banos-Policy Advocacy Group (UPLB-PAG). Footing from her long experience in mass tree plantation, Director Galinato recommends site visitation to assess the feasibility theplanned tree planting...