The Makiling Botanic Gardens (MBG) Plant of the Month (POM) for December 2022 is the Balakat Gubat, scientifically known as Balakata luzonica (Vidal) Esser. The plant is from the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to the Philippines. C. Ridsdale provided the translation of Balakat gubat as “shoulder tree”. Balakat Gubat is a …
AP Renewables, Inc. (APRI) and Nague Malic Magnawa & Associates (NMM) are the newest partners of the Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños for Mount Makiling Forest Reserve’s Corporate Partnership for Environmental Restoration Program (CoPERP). CoPERP is a program …
Professors from the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), a public university in Malaysia visited the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve ASEAN Heritage Park (MMFR AHP) from 13 to 14 December 2022. Dr. Jamalunlaili Abdullah, Dr. Mohd Salleh Daim, Ms. Siti Noorbaizura Bookhari, Ms. Mazzueen Md Khalid, and Ms. Mas Aiyu Jamaludin of …
Dr. Katsuhide Yokoyama and Dr. Akira Kawamura, professors of Urban Environmental Sciences at the Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan visited the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). As part of their visit to the UPLB College of Forestry and Natural Resources (CFNR), they had a short tour of the …
The University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry organized the Asia-Pacific Young Scientists Association 3-Minute Thesis Competition which was participated by different undergraduate and graduate students. During the initial screening, On 8 November 2022, 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, 18 semi-finalists were chosen from 12 Asia-Pacific Universities. This was further …
On 28 November 2022, signing of Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was held at the Makiling Botanic Gardens (MBG) for the newly approved projects of the Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems (MCME) and Philippine Geothermal Production Company, Inc. (PGPC Inc.) entitled: “Scaling-Up the Participatory Community-based Natural Resources Management in Four Watersheds of Mount …