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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kapaligiran at Likas na Yaman), abbreviated as DENR, is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country’s environment in natural resources, specifically forest and grazing lands, mineral resources, including those in ...
National Greening Program. NGP significantly improves the country's forest cover, placing Philippines fifth in the world in terms of forest gain, as cited in the 2015 United Nations Forest Report. It also increases the productivity of forestlands thereby reducing poverty, especially in the uplands.
The DENR tenure rights allow the communities to harvest the trees from the 34 hectare plantations that they themselves have set up. [6] The success of the initiative was limited by a lack of government investment in the beginning, although investment from Deutsche Gesellschaft for Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) - a German government agency ...
President Benigno Aquino III established the National Greening Program (NGP) [40] with the signing of Executive Order No. 26 on February 24, 2011. [41] The program aims to increase the country's forest cover in 1.5 million hectares (15,000 km 2) of land with 1.5 billion trees from 2011 to 2016. In 2015, the program was expanded to cover all ...
A portion of the world's iciest, coldest continent is "greening" at a dramatic rate because of global warming, scientists announced in a recent study. In fact, the research showed that vegetation ...
In 2013, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the Bicol Region ordered the park's closure to human activities with a total log ban and anti-illegal logging task force set up as part of the government's National Greening Program. The program also aims to plant 1.5 billion trees from 2011 to 2016.
The young mother is one of thousands of Kenyans who have been forced out of their homes since the launch of a World Bank-financed forest conservation program in western Kenya’s Cherangani Hills. Human rights advocates claim government authorities have used the project as a vehicle for pushing indigenous peoples out of their ancestral forests.
The US last dealt with a debt ceiling crisis in early 2023, when it hit its $31.4 trillion debt limit. After months of contentious negotiations between the GOP-led House and the Democrats who ...