Ecosystem Health Report Card for Laguna de Bay, Philippines

Ecosystem Health Report Card for Laguna de Bay, Philippines

IAN is involved in the development of the first Ecosystem Health Report Card for Laguna de Bay, the largest freshwater lake in the Philippines. This project is jointly implemented by the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia Resource Facility (PRF) and the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA), under the UNEP/GEF Project on Global Foundations for Reducing Nutrient Enrichment and Oxygen Depletion from Land-based Pollution in Support of Global Nutrient Cycle. IAN staff attended and facilitated two workshops in December 2013 and June 2015, in which initial phases of report card development were discussed. The report card is expected to be released in conjunction with the LLDA's 46th Anniversary on October 2015. The report card will be designed to provide inputs for the better management of Laguna de Bay, particularly in the formulation of nutrient reduction strategies. Key partners include the LLDA Technical Working group and the external experts from the University of the Philippines-Marine Science Institute (UP-MSI), University of the Philippines-Los Bańos (UPLB), University of Santo Tomas (UST), and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

 

Key Personnel

Dave Nemazie
Chief of Staff
Simon Costanzo
Science Integrator
Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen
Science Integrator