A two-day Ecological Solid Waste Management training-seminar for barangay officials was held at the Kabankalan City Hall, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental.

The project was in coordination with the Institute of Environmental Governance of the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City and the Tanggol Kalikasan, with support from the Ford Foundation, a press release from the Kabankalan City government said.

Mayor Pedro Zayco, Jr., gave the welcome remarks. He said the city is enjoining all barangays to strictly implement the Republic Act 9003 or the Solid Waste Management Program. Speakers were engineers Felix Querubin and Ann Pandan, Dr. Maridel Isulat, lawyers Rey Depasucat and Alett Nuñez, SPO3 Walter Nepomuceno, Sr., Teresita Barcoma, Dr. Nemesio Cañete and Engr. Abet Pandan, the press release added.*

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Teachers, administrators
join marine, wildlife camp

The Philippine Reef and Rainforest Conservation Foundation, Inc. hosted the Marine and Wildlife Camp for high school teachers and school administrators recently at the Danjugan Island, Brgy. Bulata, Cauayan, Negros Occidental.

The activity was attended by 30 teachers from St. Joseph High School, La Salle Integrated School, St. Benilde and La Consolacion College from Bacolod City, and faculty and school administrators of La Salle Lipa and La Salle Greenhills, a press release from the Philippine Reef and Rainforest Conservation Foundation, Inc. said yesterday.

The camp was part of the exposure to conservation work in Negros Occidental and was aimed at aiding the school faculty to incorporate conservation education in their science curriculum, it said.

The Resource speakers were Pol Cariño of the Center for Tropical Studies for Bats and Forest Ecology; Renee Lorica of Fauna and Flora International for Wildlife Biology; Myrtle Arias of Reef Check International; Stefan Groenewold, Marine Fisheries specialist of the German Development Service; and Terence Paul Dacles, Sagay Marine Reserve Marine Biologist as the camp director.

Activities included bird and bat watching, trekking, sky diving and a series of lectures on conservation. The PRRCFI has been hosting marine and wildlife camps since 1992, the press release added.

Danjugan Island has pristine forest and wildlife and surrounding reefs; it has been awarded as the "Best Managed Reef " in the country in 2002, the press release said.*

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