The members of the Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) of the Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (MMPL) will meet in March to consider the possibility...
Among the measures they are undertaking is the conservation of Singnapan Valley being enforced by the Protected Area Management Office (PAMO) under the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO)-Quezon.
Reynato Gonzaga, protected area superintendent (PASu) of the MMPL, said Monday that they are closely monitoring activities of plant collectors because it is prohibited in the protected area.
The project, supported by USAID's Protect Wildlife, local governments, and a private company Sunlight Foods Corp. (SFC) is aimed at increasing farmers' income in support of the protected area's conservation.
The article was about Campong It Mapangarapan It Palawano (CAMPAL)’s appeal to the DENR to endorse their coffee farming agro-forestry project for the issuance of an environmental compliance certificate (ECC)
During the 15th en banc meeting of the Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) of MMPL held in Puerto Princesa City on December 16, Brooke’s Point, Quezon, Dr. Jose Rizal, Sofronio Española, and Bataraza each committed to allot P500,000 from their respective funds to support forest protection activities and stricter enforcement of environmental laws in the main protected area and its buffer zone, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in MIMAROPA said in a statement.
It is a hiker’s dream to climb the highest peak in Palawan, the mountain of the Gods and a protected landscape of “high universal value” – the Mt. Mantalingahan. Its true summit stands proud at 2,085 Meters above Sea Level (MaSL) and scaling its first peak seems impossible until it is done. Through the Wild Expeditions Palawan, our team of six, together with the local guides from Rizal, scaled this biodiverse and breathtaking treasure dubbed as one of the hardest mountains to climb in the Philippines – read our story.
