THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has reiterated its call to protect the more than 500-kilometer Sierra Madre Mountain Range (SMMR) to avert the impact of the world's rising temperature and fight climate change.

Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu recently visited Aurora province and stressed the need to strengthen forest protection in the SMMR, which serves as Luzon's natural barrier against strong typhoons as it reduces wind speeds of potentially destructive storms.

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