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The Ninoy Aquino Parks & Wildlife Center has a lagoon, an aquarium, a playground, botanical garden and a Wildlife Rescue Center, which the Department of Environment and Natural Resources uses as a temporary shelter where confiscated, retrieved, donated, sick, abandoned, and injured wild animals are placed to be taken care of.
The region as a whole is geographically divided into four districts, of which the first district is the central capital City of Manila, the second and third districts located to the east and north of the City, respectively, and the fourth district covering the remaining areas of the region south of the City and the Pasig River.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources was first established on January 1, 1916, as the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) through the enactment of Act No. 2666 by the Philippine Commission, otherwise known as "An Act to Re-organize the Executive Department of the Government of the Philippine Islands," on November 18, 1916.
Ortigas Avenue is a 12.1 km (7.5 mi) highway connecting eastern Metro Manila and western Rizal in the Philippines.It is one of the busiest highways in Metro Manila, serving as the main thoroughfare of the metro's east–west corridor, catering mainly to traffic to and from Rizal.
Quezon City, the most populous city in the Philippines, is politically subdivided into 142 barangays. All of Quezon City's barangays are classified as urban. [1] These barangays are grouped into six congressional districts, with each district represented by a congressman in the House of Representatives. As of July 2, 2012, President Benigno S ...
No. Portrait Secretary Took office Left office Governor-General; Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources [2]; 4: Galicano Apacible (1864–1949) [3] [4]January 11,
The avenue ends at Ortigas Avenue with the Meralco Building as a terminating vista. Before August 2012, the approximately 0.5-kilometer (0.31 mi) segment from Capt. Henry Javier Street to Shaw Boulevard was previously a 9.7-meter-wide (32 ft) two-lane road.
Laguna Lake Development Authority; Agency overview; Formed: October 22, 1969; 55 years ago (): Jurisdiction: Laguna de Bay and its 21 major tributary rivers: Headquarters: LLDA Green Building, National Ecology Center, East Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines