BIOFIN Philippines brought together influential journalists and social media personalities in the country and sent them into the forest for three days to raise awareness of the plight of the critically endangered Tamaraws and mobilize resources for....
Read more: BioCamp for conservation: More finance needed to save the Philippines’ vanishing Tamaraws
More than 100 Bantay Dagat and Bantay Kalikasan members from Panglima Sugala municipality in Tawi-Tawi province participated in USAID Protect Wildlife project’s intensive training on enforcing fishery, forestry....
Read more: Tawi-Tawi town boosts local forces for environmental protection
The national summit became a venue for sharing best practices, discussing challenges encountered, collaborative arrangements, and mapping out ways forward in enforcing wildlife and environmental laws in the Philippines....
Read more: USAID’s Protect Wildlife project supports Philippine summit on wildlife law enforcement
The USAID’s Protect Wildlife project, together with Rare, recently, held the fourth Campaigning for Conservation (C4C) training for Philippine partners in General Santos City. This was the biggest C4C training in the country so far, with....
Read more: Southern Mindanao hosts biggest Campaigning for Conservation in the Philippines
As part of its initiative under the Protect Wildlife project to intensify conservation research in the Philippines, USAID invites graduate students to pitch their approved thesis and dissertation proposals that focus on conserving threatened species and habitats....
Read more: USAID launches assistance for conservation research in the Philippines
The Philippines welcomed three ASEAN Member States as it hosted the cross-country visit of implementers of the ASEAN-ROK Forest Cooperation project, Capacity Building on the Application of Landscape Approach to Support the Sustainable Natural Resources Management....
Read more: Philippines hosts Cross Country Visit of AFoCo BIPS Regional Project implementers
Communities situated in the Ayala and Manicahan watersheds and Mampang and Talon-talon mangrove forests in Zamboanga City joined the participatory mapping activities conducted by the USAID Protect Wildlife project....
Read more: Protect Wildlife project expands to watersheds and mangroves in Zamboanga City
Fresh from securing their Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) during the early part of 2018, the Magbukun Ayta Indigenous People (IP) in Morong, Bataan declared portions of their recently awarded territory as “indigenous communities....
Read more: Morong Aytas declare their ancestral lands as conservation zones
The technical training, which was supported by the USAID Protect Wildlife project, covered everything from general and diagnostic features of common and threatened Philippine mammals, their habitats and threats, to processes that result in....
Read more: Protect Wildlife Project, DENR train new batch of experts on wildlife identification
In consonance with continuing efforts to expand the country’s protected area system, the Philippine ICCA Project spearheaded a National Stakeholders’ Consultation on its proposed policies that aim to institutionalize “Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities....
Read more: Philippine ICCA Project holds consultations on IP-based biodiversity policies
The Minamata Initial Assessment Project and the Environmental Management Bureau kick-started the nationwide drive on raising awareness of mercury use and its effects and the enforcement of the Minamata Convention on....
Read more: MIA Project kick-start nationwide drive on awareness of mercury
The training taught participants about wildlife, fisheries and environmental laws; permitting regulations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) treaty; and various procedures in....
Read more: USAID, DENR train new batch of trainers on wildlife law enforcement
The School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM) of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños is implementing a project to evaluate the impacts of the increasing geographical distribution of a major invasive alien species....
Read more: SESAM implements a pioneering DENR-funded project on invasive alien species
The project developed innovative tools such as policy briefs, application software packages, models and applications, and toolkits for marine planning, analysing systems, sustaining business and promoting change designed to....
Read more: CCRES coastal tools, training guide now available online
The project is a brainchild of the Global Wildlife Program (GWP), a global partnership on wildlife conservation and crime prevention for sustainable development. The GWP is composed of 19 countries in Asia and Africa that work together to....
The USAID Protect Wildlife project joined government agencies, partners and environmental stakeholders in celebrating the passage of Republic Act 11038 or the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System (ENIPAS) Act....
Read more: Expanded protected areas law to boost conservation in the Philippines