DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Region V, Legazpi City


 
JULY 2010
 
News and Updates
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources is mandated to ensure the judicious use, development, management, renewal and conservation of the country's
 
JOSELIN MARCUS E. FRAGADA
Regional Executive Director



GAD - DENR V Celebrates Womens Month
  
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  DENR 5 to monitor programs, projects within river basins
 

 

 

 

natural resources as well as the protection and enhancement of the quality of the environment.

Consistent with this mandate were programs, projects and strategies implemented and successfully undertaken in calendar year 2009. Among which is the rehabilitation of degraded natural forests, mangroves and
watersheds, promotion of sustainable use and more equitable access enabling stakeholders' participation in the protection and management of these resources and the strict enforcement of forest laws and environmental standards.

This Office likewise conducts Information and Education Campaign (IEC) to educate our people and make them more aware of environmental issues in order to ensure the survival and security of succeeding generations.

We are pleased to report that DENR 5 successfully accomplished its goals and targets as mandated.   
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SPECIAL PROJECTS
  Albay
Camarines Sur
 
Camarines Norte
   
Catanduanes
  Malabsay Falls in Mt. Isarog provides fresh water to Metro Naga and   adjacent municipalities. The RBCO integrates issues and priorities of   river basin and non-river basin areas.  
Masbate
 
Sorsogon
 
The monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects of the DENR in the Executive order No. 816 "Declaring the River Basin Control Office under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as the Lead Government Agency for Integrated Planning, Management, Rehabilitation and Development of the Country's River Basins" signed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on July 6, 2009 ....more....  
Bicol River Basin Watershed Mgt. Project
   
More people benefit from community based forest management program
 
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      Unknown to many, several people's organization members have been benefiting by implementing livelihood and agroforestry projects under the Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) program in the Bicol region.

      In support to the Hunger Mitigation and Alleviation program of the present administration, the Agrarian Reform Fund (ARF) under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has provided since 2007 financial assistance to strengthen the CBFM program in the region. The projects under CBFM are carried out to improve the productivity of upland communities through generation of additional income and to promote food security.......more...
     
 
 
MGB
EMB
 
 
   
DENR appeals for people support in PRS92 mojon preservation
Libmanan-Pulantuna Watershed Mgt. Project
 
      LEGAZPI CITY - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources is appealing anew for people support in the protection and preservation of geodetic control points (GCPs) or mojons established in different places in the Bicol region under the Philippine Reference System of 1992 (PRS92).
Plant a Tree
The new Libmanan Pulantuna logo
.-- It speaks of how human capability could bring in benefits such as water that comes out of a healthy watershed. As always, development projects work with people.... An RPAO concept of LPWMP
DATE
EVENTS
PERSON/OFFICE
CONCERNED
DESCRIPTION/
SIGNIFICANCE OF
EVENTS
7-9

Management Conference
Masbate

DENR-V
To discuss status of mid-year accomplishments, issues and other concerns.
7-8
and 14-15
Barangay Assembly & House to House campaign
LMS Personnel
PENROs/CENROs

To conduct information and dissemination campaign on Free Patent and discuss different issues and concerns regarding land matters.
3-4
11-17 &
19-20
Monitoring of Wetland of Priority wetland/migratory birds areas for avian flu
DENR-PAWCZMS/CENRO Focal Person
DENR-V will participate in the Independence Day Celebration.
      "PRS92 mojons are very important as these serve as basis in all surveying activities,"DENR Regional Executive Director Joselin Marcus Fragada said......more....
       
           
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
       
  July 2010
         
         
 
Bicol Map
           
     
     
 
DENR Catanduanes personnel point to one of recovered mojons in Barangay San Roque, Bato town which were later "adopted" by the said Barangay through a memorandum of agreement signed by its Barangay Captain
 
 
Some 1,811 forest land dwellers, farmers and fisherfolks in five Bicol provinces benefited from the DENR Upland Development Program (UDP) in CY 2009. In photos are UDP beneficiaries engaged in nursery establishment and seedling production activities. UDP was a DENR initiative to create immediate additional income for upland households and fisherfolks in support to President Arroyo's Hunger Mitigation Program.(ASA)
     
DENR-V Bicol Multipurpose Cooperative
 
 

Press/Feature Releases:

 
 DENR plants trees in 8000 hectares in Bicol River Basin area ...more...
  DENR announces 2010 Saringaya Awardees
 ...more...
  Biological Diversity Conservation is a Global Concern...more...
  DENR says wildlife hunters are off-limits to RP...more...
  DENR calls on communities to help prevent and control forest fires...more...
  Farmers, fisherfolks rehabilitate 1,921 hectares forest lands and mangrove areas in Bicol
...more...

  More people benefit from community based forest management program
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  DENR appeals to candidate to adopt 'no nails, no staple wire" policy
...more...
  DENR launches drive to cut campaign trash in May 2010 polls ...more...
  DENR Bicol team finds a rare wetland bird in Cabusao, presence attributed to available food source ...more...
  P2.2 million worth of 'hot' forest products confiscated in Bicol in CY 2009 ...more...
  DENR Intensifies Climate Change Advocacy
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  Delineation of Bicol's forest boundary lines to be completed by 2011 ...more...
  DENR distributes 4,562 Free Patents under Handog Titulo ...more...
  DENR rehabilitates 8,000 hectares land in Bicol River Basin ...more...
  DENR Officials reassigned ...more...
  Baros River in Iriga City classified as "Class B"...more...
  60 LGUs adopt PRS92 mojons in Bicol...more....
  DENR Suspends Charcoal Permit Issuance in Camarines Norte...more....
  Private lands planted with trees in Sorsogon
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  Global Initiatives to Phase-out Ozone Depleting Substances succeeding.... more...
  
UNEP launches Media Corner and opens competition for young journalists on ozone issues... more...
  
 Review of DENR R&D yields disaster abtement breakthroughs (by ABRanara)... more......

  Shaping Mindscapes to combat climate change and other challenges (by RMendones).....more...
 
 
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Regional Office No. 5, Legazpi City
Email: pmd5denr@yahoo.com