DENR 10 set to release coffee table book

• Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1471454566881/denr-10-set-to-release-coffee-table-book
• Thursday, February 4, 2016

(With report from the Planning and Management Division/rpao_xyte-RPAO-DENR 10/PIA)

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, February 1 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources 10 (DENR 10) is set to release soon a coffee table book of Region 10 Protected Areas (PAs).

The Coffee Table Book is a compilation of nature photography, natural landscapes and objects in natural landscapes. It presents the conservation and preservation efforts of DENR underlining the PAs potentials in ecotourism.

Regional Director Ruth M. Tawantawan said, the DENR enforces the protection and management of the protected areas because of their recognized natural, ecological and/or cultural values.

She added that these areas are essential for biodiversity conservation, often providing habitat and protection from hunting for threatened and endangered species.

Region 10 has 10 protected areas under four categories - resource reserve, protected landscape, natural monument/landmark and natural park.

The resource reserve category includes the protected landscape and seascape areas of Initao-Libertad, Baliangao and Bacolod-Kauswagan.

The Mimbilisan Protected Landscape falls under the protected landscape category, while Mt. Timpoong-HibokHibok is under natural monument/landmark category.

Most of the Region’s PAs are categorized as natural parks including ranges of Mt. Kitanglad, Mt. Kalatungan, Mt. Balatukan, Mt. Malindang and Mt. Inayawan.

Each PA is managed by its Protected Area Management Board (PAMB). All 10 PAMBs of Region 10 were able to pass a total of 170 resolutions in compliance to its mandate of strengthening and operationalization of the protected areas in the Region - 167 of which were approved.

The PAMBs also took steps in administering the Habitat Protection by designing restrictive, directional and interpretive signages based on standard design and specification of signs, buildings, facilities and other infrastructures that may be installed or constructed within the protected area. These signages are installed along the protected areas’strategic entry and exit points.

The objective in setting up these signages/billboards is to increase the level of awareness of the local communities living in the park and that of visitors/tourists. The billboards likewise convey the prohibited acts inside the Protected Areas as provided under RA 9304, RA 9147 and RA 7586.