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Friday, March 13, 2020

Zambo strengthens environment protection

THE LOCAL government signed a memorandum of understanding or MOU with various stakeholders to protect the environment during the recently concluded Zamboanga City Environment Summit held at the Marcian Garden Hotel.


City Administrator Apple Go poses with stakeholders during the presentation of the Zamboanga City Biodiversity Management Framework Guidebook for the sustainable use, equitable delivery of benefits and ecological services arising from biodiversity conservation. (Bong Serondo)

The MOU is for the collaboration, sharing of resources and management of Biodiversity Research and Learning Center at the Great Santa Cruz Island and (the adjacent) Little Santa Cruz Island Protected Landscape and Seascape between the local government, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Zamboanga State College of Marine Sciences and Technology.

City Administrator Apple Go signed the MOU in behalf of the local government. She also presented the Zamboanga City Biodiversity Management Framework Guidebook for the sustainable use, equitable delivery of benefits and ecological services arising from biodiversity conservation.

The summit was in collaboration with Tanggol Kalikasan - a non-stock, non-profit, public interest environmental law office in the Philippines – and the United States Agency for International Development’s Partnership for Biodiversity Conservation Program.

The meeting highlighted the local tangible environmental issues that included the recently approved local environment code, conservation of biodiversity in protection of forest, coastal areas and island's ecosystems, including the challenging urban concern on solid waste management. (Zamboanga Post)


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