Scientific Name: Toona calantas
The Kalantas is a large forest tree. The leaves are alternate, oddly pinnate, and grow to about 30 to 50 centimeters long or even longer. The leaflets are smooth or hairy along the nerves below, oblong, about 12 centimeters long, and 5 centimeters wide.
The bark in decoction is an astringent and is [...]
Luntiang Pilipinas, a nationwide urban forestry program established by Senator Loren Legarda to help raise the public’s level of awareness on the value of trees, conducted a tree-planting activity in Baclaran Elementary School in Parañaque last Thursday, September 8.
A total of 400 seedlings were distributed to Parañaque Division of City Schools, which were to be [...]
Scientific Name: Canarium asperum
Another endemic tree in the Philippines, the Pagsahingin’s tapped resin is sold as Manila elemi or Elemi which is used in the manufacturing of paint, varnishes, perfumes, incense, aromatherapy and pharmaceutical products. Its resin is also used as illuminant while its wood is used for light interior works, furniture, veneer, plywood, agricultural [...]
Bolong-Eta
Scientific Name: Diospyros pilosanthera
The Bolong-Eta is a medium-sized tree with numerous, alternate, leathery oblong-shaped leaves. The leaves are about 12 centimeters long and 5.5 centimeters wide, with pointed tip and usually rounded base. The flowers are white, solitary, or fascicled. The fruit is about two centimeters across, and subtended by an enlarged calyx.
They are endemic [...]
As another tropical depression, named Juaning, lashes at five provinces in the bicol region and earthquake hits some parts of the country, Senator Loren Legarda led the Philippine launch of the United Nations’ Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction at the Senate.
Held a day after President Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), Legarda [...]
Senator Loren Legarda today expressed support to the initiatives of Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino in abating the proliferation of billboards, which are hazardous especially in times of natural calamities to the areas where they are located.
Legarda, who is the chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change and a United Nations [...]
“All it takes is political will and eleven cities and municipalities have started showing the rest of the country that a plastic bag ban can be done. I commend these local government units for being in the frontline of the battle against solid waste and flooding,” Senator Loren Legarda said.
To date, eleven cities and municipalities [...]
Senator Loren Legarda today reiterated her call for the protection of the Ifugao Rice Terraces following the spread of reports about its inclusion in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) list of endangered sites.
Legarda said that the Ifugao Rice Terraces has been dubbed as an Eighth Wonder of the World and inscribed [...]
Senator Loren Legarda today said that there are a hundred more reasons for Filipinos to strengthen efforts in conserving Philippine biodiversity with the discovery of more than one hundred new species in the country’s rainforests and seas.
Legarda noted that a team of scientists, researchers and biodiversity conservationists from the University of the Philippines and the [...]
Senator Loren Legarda today called on Filipinos to highlight and honor another facet in the life of the country’s National Hero—that of being a hero of the environment.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change and a staunch environmentalist, said that Dr. Jose Rizal also underscored the importance of caring for the environment through [...]