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ENTRUSTMENT OF PRAYER MARKER TO DENR

 Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu (left) receives the “2017 Rizal-Blumentritt Pamathalaan Academy Thanksgiving Prayer Marker to Our Lady of Fatima for the Duterte Presidency” from Dr. Consolacion Alaras (right) during the Earth Day celebration at the ampitheater of the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center in Quezon City on April 24, 2019. The marker contains an inspirational prayer to guide the DENR in its endeavors and mandate to protect the environment in line with its blessing for the fruitful leadership of the Duterte administration. Also in the photo are (onstage, L-R: ) Earth Day Network Philippines President Wigberto Tanada, Jr., Environmental Management Bureau - National Capital Region DirectorAtty. Domingo Clemente, Jr., DENR - National Capital RegionDirector Jacqueline Caancan, DENR Undersecretary for Policy, Planning, and International Affairs Jonas Leones, Undersecretary and Chief of Staff Rodolfo Garcia, Jr., and Undersecretary for Field Operations Juan Miguel Cuna. ###

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A COMMITMENT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu (right) leads the pledge of commitment for protecting the environment and active participation in the programs of the DENR among some 50 representatives of various organizations as the new members of the Tayo ang Kalikasan. Cimatu led the pledge during the celebration of Earth Day at the Ampitheater of the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center in Quezon City on April 24, 2019. ###

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BLYTH’S HORNBILL

Senior Ecosystems Management Specialist Rogelio Demellentes, Jr. (center) of the Biodiversity Management Bureau and member of Task Force POGIleads a team of enforcers from the DENR regional office in Davao City in inspecting nine individuals of Blyth's hornbill (inset), part of Php50 million-worth of various exotic species of birds, mammals and reptiles confiscated from illegal wildlife traders in Mati City, Davao Oriental on April 8, 2019. As of this writing, all the confiscated wildlife, numbering 450, have been turned over to Davao Crocodile Park for safekeeping. The Blyth's hornbill (Rhyticerosplicatus), also known as the Papuan hornbill, is listed on the Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an international agreement between governments and aims to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. ###

 

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RESCUED SULFUR-CRESTED COCKATOOS

Found in several areas in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, the sulfur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) has the second largest number of smuggled wildlife that were confiscated during the buy-bust operation conducted by the Philippine Operations Group on Ivory and Illegal Wildlife or Task Force POGI, a composite team of wildlife enforcers from the DENR – Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB), the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), and Philippine National Police (PNP), in cooperation with the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the 64 heads of the sulfur-crested cockatoo are “not necessarily threatened with extinction, but trading them must be controlled in order to avoid utilization incompatible with their survival.” ###

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MUTUAL SUPPORT

Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu (right) extends his gratitude to former Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno for accepting the invitation to be the inaugural lecturer at the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources Distinguished Lecture Series in support of the Manila Bay and Boracay rehabilitation projects held Monday (April 15, 2019) at the Seda Hotel Vertis North in Quezon City. Prior to this, Puno also expressed his support to Cimatu’s leadership in DENR by saying that he is “always at the DENR Secretary’s beck and call.” ###

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