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The Million Hectare Walk 2008 (Year 2)

The Million Hectare Walk is an event which aims to raise funds through pledges. Every lap completed by a Walker is sponsored by family and friends’ pledges. Walkers can take the long route (1.5 km) or the short route (360 meters).

You are cordially invited to walk with us on November 16 Sunday at 6:00-11:00 am to help restore our natural forests. Join the Million Hectare Walk at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center in Quezon City and support ROAD* to 2020 as we walk to generate pledges to raise awareness and resources to restore one million hectares of our natural forests using native tree species by year 2020. Form a team to walk together, enlist family members and friends, and solicit pledges to support your laps to raise funds to plant more native trees. read more...


NEWS

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FEATURES

An Environmental Wiz Kid in today’s Quiz Bee
By Freida S. Policarpio
Photo by Ryan Palacol
Haring Ibon Issue 35 | July-September 2008

The message is loud and clear: Philippine biodiversity conservation is as important as Math, Science, History and English.

This was conveyed to the millions who have watched and participated at the Semi-final Round of the 29th National Quiz Bee at SM North Edsa when questions on biodiversity conservation and the ecosystem paraded in various categories of the Quiz Bee.

Is coral a plant, animal or rock? Is a ton of paper equivalent to 7 trees? Are dolphins fishes, mammals or amphibians?

Wonderful prizes await contestants who can answer the questions correctly, with the most deserving contestant receiving a special award – the Haribon Foundation Award. read more...


 Close to Home
By Jairus Carmela Josol

The environment. So much has already been said about it that it has become quite a cliché. We’ve all been told about the problems, whether we were consciously listening or not. So to avoid the bandwagon, let me tell you something else. My story.

I grew up in the small, sleepy town of Sogod, Southern Leyte. A typical, provincial Filipino town, Sogod relies much on Mother Nature’s good hand for sustenance. Our rice fields are rich. Our beaches are exquisite. We had a very stable symbiotic relationship with the environment but we too suffered inconveniences at the hand of Mother Nature. In the recent past, Southern Leyte has been ravaged by a number of landslides that claimed hundred of lives. Death and destruction, happening in the very place I call home.

These landslides had a deeply significant, and personal effect on me. They were the stimuli that drove me to take up Environmental Science and learn of ways that might prevent such tragedies from happening again. To put it simply, I just wanted to protect my home. In grade school, I was taught that landslides could be brought upon by the denuding of forests. In college, I learned that vulnerability to landslides was affected by topography and high precipitation, which could be further aggravated by factors such as climate change. Climate change in itself is brought about by a whole other host of issues. I thought that to protect my hometown, all I needed to do was plant some trees, but a whole other slew of interrelated factors needed to be considered. read more...
 
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