BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here has ordered its field officers and disaster teams to double their efforts in rebuilding typhoon-damaged areas in coordination with the local government units (LGUs). DENR Secretary of Enforcement, Mining and Muslim Affair
Published January 23, 2021, 11:41 AM
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) maintained Saturday its willingness “to extend its expertise to help in the rehabilitation of a mined-out site on Tumbagaan Island in Tawi-Tawi, a province situated in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).’’
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (MANILA BULLETIN)
DENR Undersecretary for Enforcement, Mining and Muslim Affairs Jim O. Sampulna said that this will happen even if the province of Tawi-Tawi is not under the agency’s jurisdiction.
The environment-related concerns of Tawi-Tawi is supervised by the BARMM’s Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy (MENRE).