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Read more about the article ?Elderly ?forest guard walks 35 km to call for Gina Lopez’s confirmation
SENIOR SUPPORTER. 70-year-old forest guard Ric Obenza walked 35 kilometers from Calinan district to Roxas Avenue on Wednesday March 1 to join the call to support the appointment of Gina Lopez as environment secretary. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

?Elderly ?forest guard walks 35 km to call for Gina Lopez’s confirmation

70-year old Ric Obenza ?said Secretary Gina Lopez ?"?needs to continue what she started because the closure of mining companies? ?should have happened a long time ago?."

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Read more about the article Davao ?City to house Phivolcs ‘mirror station’ should the ‘Big One’ hit
Engr Jamila Deocampo, head of the Davao Seismic Station based in the Philippine Science High School campus in Mintal. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Davao ?City to house Phivolcs ‘mirror station’ should the ‘Big One’ hit

This city would host a "mirror station" of the data collected by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology? (Phivolcs), a decentralization plan of the agency operation and to protect the data should the central office be destroyed by a severe earthquake.

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Read more about the article Militants back DENR exec over scrapping of mine deals  
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com file photo)

Militants back DENR exec over scrapping of mine deals  

Progressive organizations expressed their support to Environment Secretary Gina Lopez as the 75 mining deals posed a threat to the watersheds across the country.

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Read more about the article Think tank urges Duterte to stand firm on DENR’s closure of mines
President Rodrigo Duterte shares a light moment with Environment Secretary Gina Lopez during the 9th Cabinet Meeting in Malacañan on December 5, 2016. (King Rodriguez/Presidential Photo)

Think tank urges Duterte to stand firm on DENR’s closure of mines

Independent think tank and research group IBON said that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte should stand firm with the decision of Department of Environment and Natural Resources to close several mining companies after it failed to pass the agency’s mining audit.

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