News update 4 Luzon cities eyed for study

BAGUIO CITY - An international funding agency has chosen four key cities in Northern Luzon as among the pilot areas for a four-year study on how to significantly mitigate the effects of climate change to the people living in the said areas.

The four cities, Baguio in the Cordillera; Dagupan and San Fernando in Region 1, and Tuguegarao in Region 2, were chosen as pilot sites for the ''Cities in Asia Developing Climate Sensitive Adaptation Plans'' because of the worsening effects of global warming to the lives of the people in the areas.

The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Local Government for Sustainability cited the four-year study, which includes cities in India and with a total budget of 1.5 million euros, is reportedly funded by the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The study, which is in consonance with the climate change adaptation and disaster is reduction advocacy of the Regional Development Council (RDC) in the Cordillera, aims to help concerned local governments formulate comprehensive and long-term mitigation or adaptation plans, together with ICLEI or the local governments for sustainability, which is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have initially made a commitment for sustainable development.

Just ask - Any attraction near gamu Isabela ?

Hi Kurk some of the famous attraction around this area near our site

Bonsai Forest (Sumanget, Dinapigue)
The 20,000 hectare area is accessible by land transport from Baler in Aurora Province and by air from Cauayan Airport.

Sta. Victoria Caves and Environmental School at Fuyo National Park Isabela Caves
It features naturally formed lattices and sparkling rock formations. Visitors are given lectures and allowed to plant their own seedlings, and those enrolled at the Environmental School are given certificates. Within the area is the Pinzal Falls conducive for swimming and other recreational facilities like carabao-drawn carts and horseback riding. The park is 15 kilometers from Ilagan town proper.

Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park (Palanan Rainforest)
The largest protected area in the country with more than 300,000 hectares of rain forest, and the lowest at 800 feet above sea level. Declared number one in biodiversity and also one of the top 10 biodiversity “hotpots” in the world. Research showed the existence of unknown and unnamed species of flora and fauna. A confirmed habitat of the Philippine Eagle and the Cloud Rat. Its coastal areas host whales and dolphins and other cetaceans. Ideal for scuba diving and other water sports, and a mountaineering/trekking challenge.
Accessible by light aircraft from Cauayan Airport (Cyclone Airways), pump boat from Sta. Ana in Cagayan and Baler in Aurora Province, and trekking from San Mariano, Cauayan and Ilagan in Isabela. Also accessible by air transport from Tuguegarao City Domestic Airport through CHEMTRAD.

News Update Hottest day in Manila this year recorded on Tuesday—PAGASA

It just keeps getting hotter. State weather forecasters from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) recorded on Tuesday the hottest temperature in Metro Manila this year, a GMA News report said. According to the report, the temperature in Metro Manila, particularly in Quezon City, reached 36.8 degrees Celsius at 2 p.m. Tuesday. This figure surpassed the previous hottest-day “record" of 36.1 degrees Celsius last April 6.

This page requires a higher version browser Meanwhile, a sizzling 39.5 degrees Celsius—2.5 degrees higher than the normal human body temperature—was recorded in Tuguegarao City in Cagayan province.

Tuguegarao has earned the reputation of being the country’s hottest city, where the highest temperature in the Philippines was registered on April 29, 1912. The state weather bureau had earlier warned that temperature in some parts in the country may breach the 40-degrees-Celsius mark due to the El Nino dry spell.—Andreo C. Calonzo/JV