International scientists attending the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network East Asia and Pacific (ILTER-EAP) training workshop and conference visit Mount Makiling’s 2-hectare LTER site. The event is attended by local and foreign participants from various ILTER network member countries, academe, local institutions, and non-government organizations.
UP Among Asia’s Top Universities
Inquirer reports UP is 63rd in Asia’s top 300 universities. Last year, UP placed 67th. UP President Alfredo Pascual attribute UP’s improved score to “efforts to increase funds and incentives for research, upgrading our facilities and laboratories, proving support for PhD and Master’s scholarships, recruiting faculty through the Balik-PhD Program …
UP Among World’s Best in Agriculture, Forestry
Global ranking of universities by the QS Quacquarelli Symonds’s World University Rankings by Subject put UP among the world’s top 200. Read more at PhilStar. Photo by IPS.
Mt Makiling named as ‘Ecotourism’s sleeping giant’
“We are looking at a next big attraction,” said Oliva of the MMFR, which he likened to a “sleeping giant” because of its big potential to draw not only the scientists and researchers but tourists and hikers as well. “Let’s protect the biodiversity and at the same time invite people …
Rappler on MMFR’s Heritage Park Status
Mt Makiling, a key biodiversity hotspot and popular hiking destination, was named the 33rd ASEAN Heritage Park on Thursday, October 3. In a ceremony held at the Mt Makiling Botanical Gardens in Los Baños, Laguna, officials from the ASEAN Center for Biodiversity presented the certification of declaration to the park …
Zambo Times on MMFR’s ASEAN Heritage Park Status
Global rankingASEAN environment chiefs declare PAs as AHPs since the organizationbelieves the uniqueness, diversity and notable values there deserve the highest recognition so importance of these sites as conservation areas can be appreciated internationally.Read more at Zambotimes.