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A De La Salle University (DLSU) professor proposes the establishment of a coordinating body in the Philippines that will make sure coastal ecosystems in the country are healthy in order to help combat the effects of climate change.

Dr.Wilfredo Roehl Y. Licuanan, a professor at DLSU’s College of Science stated at a recent Policy Forum by the Department of Science and Technology-National Academy of Science and Technology (DOST-NAST) that coordinated action on the country’s coastal and marine resources is better than having one agency managing fisheries, another agency managing the environment, and yet a third one handling tourism separately.

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Members of the Camarines Norte Pili Growers and Processors Association (CNPGPA) learn how to make handicraft items from the pili shell (left) and extract oil from the pili nut (right) in seminar workshops held last year and organized by the Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute.

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Denik Wood Enterprise, one of the country’s largest wood treatment companies, recently received help from the Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute in rehabilitating its plant in Matalam, North Cotabato.

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The Internet has made a lot of things easier. Unfortunately, these include the creation of a new breed of predatory system of which Filipino scientists and researchers should be wary.

In a symposium on predatory journals and conferences held recently at Hotel Jen in Pasay City, Dr. Fidel R. Nemenzo (Vice-Chancellor for Research and Development at the University of the Philippines Diliman) raised the issue of hijacked journals-- fake journals that steal the identity of legitimate ones to trick scientists and researchers into submitting their research articles.