title: Department of Environment and Natural Resources
text: The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (, DENR) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country’s environment and natural resources, specifically forest and grazing lands, mineral resources, including those in reservation and watershed areas, and lands of the public domain, as well as the licensing and regulation of all natural resources as may be provided for by law in order to ensure equitable sharing of the benefits derived therefrom for the welfare of the present and future generations of Filipinos.
  
  History of the DENR
  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. In 1932, the DANR was reorganized into the Department of Agriculture and Commerce (DAC).
  
  In 1947, a reorganization act changed the DAC back to the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The Natural Resources arm of the DANR was finally spun off on May 17, 1974, as the Ministry of Natural Resources. On January 30, 1987, the ministry was reorganized into the Department of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources, by Executive Order No. 131 and was finally reorganized into the Department of Environment and Natural Resources by Executive Order No. 192 on June 10, 1987. DENR worked on large-scale reforestation of Davao City under the national greening program (NGP), its flagship project that lasted for a period of six years, from 2011 to 2016.
  
  List of the Secretaries of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources
  
  Organizational Structure
  The Department is currently headed by a Secretary with the following Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries:
  Undersecretary for Strategic Communications/Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary
  Undersecretary for Legal Affairs and Administration
  Undersecretary for Finance, Information System and Climate Change
  Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International Affairs
  Undersecretary for Luzon and Visayas Environment Field Operations
  Undersecretary for Mindanao Environment Field Operations
  Undersecretary for Organizational Transformation and Human Resources
  Undersecretary for Special Concerns and Legislative Affairs
  Undersecretary for Integrated Environment Science
  Assistant Secretary for Environment, Solid Waste Management and Local Government Unit Concerns
  Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning, and Foreign-Assisted and Special Projects
  Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs 
  Assistant Secretary for Finance, Information System and Mining Concerns
  Assistant Secretary for International Affairs
  Assistant Secretary for Eastern Mindanao Field Operations
  Assistant Secretary for Human Resources, Strategic Communication and Sectoral Initiatives
  Assistant Secretary for Luzon and Visayas Field Operations
  Assistant Secretary for Western Mindanao Field Operations
  
  Bureaus
  
  Attached agencies
   Laguna Lake Development Authority
   National Mapping and Resource Information Authority
   National Water Resources Board
   Natural Resources Development Corporation
   Palawan Council for Sustainable Development
   Philippine Mining Development Corporation
  
  See also 
   Environmental issues in the Philippines
  
  References
  
  External links
  Department of Environment and Natural Resources website
  Environmental Legal Assistance Center, Inc. website
  Mines and Geosciences Bureau
  
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