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UPOU-FMDS Tree Planting Initiative Marks Earth Day Celebration

superadmin2024-04-24T09:56:18+08:00

In celebration of Earth Day 2024, the Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) held a tree planting activity on 22 April 2024 at the forest arboretum located on the east portion of the UPOU Headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna. The indigenous tree, Mountain Agoho (Gymnostoma rumphianum), was planted to align with this year’s theme of “Planet vs. Plastics”, aimed at increasing awareness of the critical environmental issue concerning plastic pollution and promoting sustainable approaches to achieve a zero-plastic-waste community. (from left to right) Mr. Elegerio, Ms. Reondanga, Asst. Prof. Halos, [...]

UPOU-FMDS MENRM Program Holds Webinar on “Wildlife: Friend or Foe in the COVID19 Pandemic?”

2023-04-24T14:24:06+08:00

Is wildlife a friend or a foe in the COVID-19 pandemic? This is what the Master of Environment and Natural Resources Management (MENRM) program discussed during the Let’s Talk it Over (LTiO) Lecture Series on 17 September 2020 and live-streamed via the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Networks. Dr. Consuelo Dl. Habito, Chair of the MENRM program, opened the webinar with the introduction of the three speakers. The first was Prof. Phillip Alviola, associate professor and bat ecologist at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and curator at the UPLB Museum of Natural History. Prof. Alviola [...]