The Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) study abroad in the Philippines program shifted to its second day with the Museum of Natural History (MNH) as it embarked on a trek up the trails of Mt. Makiling last 15 June 2016. The Mt. Makiling trek is part of the field and ecological observations that the TAMIU delegates are conducting in various places around the Philippines.

Before the trek, the participants gathered at the Training Center for Tropical Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability (TREES) and were oriented by Forester Nicasio Balahadia, who represented the director of the Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems, Dr. Nathaniel Bantayan.

History has been made once again at the UPLB Museum of Natural History as they opened their doors to international students from Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). On 13 June 2016, in partnership with some faculty of TAMIU, the Museum brought in 19 international students for an educational tour of some of its natural collections.

The tour started with an orientation on the Museum of Natural History for the international students. Formally opening the program was the Museum’s Officer-in-Charge, Dr. Aimee Lynn B. Dupo who delivered very entertaining welcoming remarks.

Around 100 students and faculty participants of the 5th ASEAN+3 Junior Science Odyssey Tour facilitated by the University of the Philippines Los Banos came to the UPLB Museum of Natural History last 17 June 2016.

The delegates were personally toured and oriented on the Museum's educational exhibits and dioramas by MNH Curators Dr. Aimee Lynn B. Dupo, Dr. Leticia E. Afuang, Prof. Judeline C. Dimalibot, Prof. Annalee S. Hadsall, Prof. Ivy Amor F. Lambio and MNH Director Juan Carlos T. Gonzalez.

World Oceans Day, held every 08 of June is a global day of ocean celebration and collaboration for a better future. This year's theme “Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet” raises the importance of promoting prevention of ocean pollution with plastics.

Plastic products deteriorate slowly and several studies in recent years have shown vast amounts plastic and other trash in the Pacific Ocean. It has been estimated that one million sea birds from plastic yearly.

A sizeable contingent from the UPLB Museum of Natural History participated during the 2016 Conference of the Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines last 19-20 May 2016 at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila.

Dr. Ireneo L. Lit, Jr., curator at the Museum's Entomological Collection was the distinguished keynote speaker of the ABSP conference attended by nearly a hundred systematists and taxonomists all over the country. The ASBP was established in 1982 to promote and represent the science and practice of taxonomy, systematics and natural history in the Philippines.

Dr. Aimee Lynn B. Dupo, Curator of Geometrid Moths and Spiders at the UPLB Museum of Natural History recently reported the first occurrence of Phauda flammans Walker 1954 infesting on Ficus benjamina trees in the Philippines.

Dr. Dupo, along with University of Santo Tomas (UST) students Elliaj Kaye Capacete, Alice Geraldine Hernando, Richard Lagrimas, Jalizah Jaira Lim, Sharlaine Orense, Joan Rivera, Gerald Soliven, Michael Tabug presented the report during the recently held 2016 conference of the Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines last 19-20 May at UST, Manila.