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What’s inside the new Arroceros Urban Forest Park?

Opened to the public last week, the newly redeveloped forest park boasts 2.71 hectares of “green space” that mixes urban elements with nature

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What’s happening to Arroceros Park? It’s becoming an ‘urban forest park’

A recent visit by environmental groups revealed that the city’s beautification project involved chopping trees and putting elevated cemented platforms in Manila’s last lung

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Dear creatives, Manila’s “last lung” needs your help

Grassroots movements have been cropping up as of late. From civilian-led organizations helping with typhoon…

Arroceros Park now a permanent forest park, to receive government funding for maintenance

The Arroceros Forest Park in Ermita, Manila has been declared a permanent forest park. Manila…

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Good news: Arroceros Forest Park and Manila Zoo are safe (for now)

If you’ve ever been following Nolisoli.ph at all, then you’d know that one of our…

Celebrate Earth Day at Arroceros Forest Park, the “last lung” of Manila

We, humans, have irrevocably damaged nature and its equilibrium resulting in climate change, deforestation, habitat…

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Nolisoli.ph 2018 roundup: 10 stories that shaped the year

From the unearthed 135-year-old Juan Luna Spoliarium boceto in Europe to the Manila city government’s…

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Visit Manila’s last forest park before it’s gone

Last month, we wrote about how the Arroceros Forest Park, Manila’s “last lung,” is under…

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Manila City gov’t is planning to destroy its last park

We might soon lose the Arroceros Forest Park, also known as the “last lung” of…