The City of Manila s mini forest, Arroceros Park, has recently been a point of contention between local leaders and other civic groups. With the approval and support of then President Fidel V. Ramos ...

After allaying fears that the planned Pasig River Expressway might affect Arroceros Park, it seems Manila’s “last lung” is still under threat from human development. A visit from Save Arroceros ...

The most popular tribute ever paid to trees is Joyce Kilmer’s poem. It is not unusual to see excerpts of his poem in placards exhibited where there are trees. Trees are natural objects that touch many ...

Arroceros Forest Park in the heart of Manila is one of the few green spaces left in the bustling Philippines capital. Successive governments have tried to get rid of it for new developments, but the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso and Vice Mayor Honey Lacuna led the groundbreaking ceremony for the redevelopment of the Arroceros Urban Forest Park, dubbed as the ...

LADIES and gentlemen, I hereby announce the wanton damage and perversion of a green area of Manila, the Arroceros Forest Park. Feverish construction has descended on it with a plan that is not for a ...

Manila Mayor Isko Moreno even plans on expanding the Arroceros Forest Park, as part of his vision of building a Green City in Manila’s Lawton area MANILA, Philippines – Arroceros Forest Park, the ...

Even as human lungs are under threat from a host of lethal invaders, the latest of which is the COVID-19, it comes as good news that the City of Manila has just saved its own “lungs”—the Arroceros ...

A signature campaign was launched by the "caretaker" of Arroceros Forest Park to oppose the plan of the Manila City government to construct the gymnasium of the Unibersidad De Manila within the ...

The Arroceros Forest Park in Ermita, Manila has been declared a permanent forest park. Manila Mayor Isko Moreno signed the declaration last Feb. 27 under Ordinance No. 8607. Dubbed the “last lung” of ...

MANILA, Philippines – Manila’s famous riverside forest park is slated to open at the end of the month of January, Manila City Engineer Armand Andres told Rappler on Monday, January 10. “It’s 80% to 85 ...

AN ORDINANCE has been proposed declaring Arroceros Forest Park , dubbed as the last lung of Manila, as a permanent forest park. Draft Ordinance No. 7981, filed in September last year and published on ...