A week after the election, several campaign materials displayed far and wide along the streets, establishments, even on school premises have been removed. However, some of these are still left unattended on the roadsides. During clean-up drives, tons of posters and tarpaulins have been recovered, which undoubtedly adds to the plastic pollution of the City. […]
World Environment Day – Ecosystem Restoration
๐๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐๐๐: ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ง๐๐ก๐ ๐ก๐๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ข๐ช Panigan-Tamugan Watershed, our next source of drinking water in Davao City, is also feeling the effects of climate change: the heavy, unpredictable rains have heavily inundated the rivers causing vegetation, along the riverbanks the soil to wash off. We rely on our BantayBukid volunteers to conduct continuous reforestation […]
Freedom from Plastics on this Independence Day
The first step in kicking any bad habit is to decide that the habit is no longer acceptable and it has to end. One of the biggest collective bad habits we have is our dependence to plastics. Let’s start a revolution against plastics! While revolutions such as this start from oneself, start moving beyond personal […]
World Environment Day 2021
Even if the lockdown has improved our environmental health to a large extent, however, we should not neglect the pandemic’s detrimental effects on the ecosystem. Increased medical waste, irresponsible use and disposal of masks, disinfectants, and gloves, as well as untreated waste, continue to endanger our environment and human health. This pandemic, while unfortunate, has […]
๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ต๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐น๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ-๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ
During one of the IATG inspection, the team recovered the shell of a dead freshwater turtle in Matina-Pangi river. Members of the IATG said that the turtle’s death might be caused by the riverโs quality which is highly turbid, dark-colored, and foul-smelling. Freshwater ecosystems near towns and cities are vulnerable to runoff and pollution. Industrial […]
What We Eat Matters
Our food choices have a significant impact on the environment. Whether it positively affects our environment or not depends on how conscious we are of our food consumption. Food production, processing, and transportation contribute to our carbon emissions and higher consumption of energy, water, and synthetic chemicals. These threaten the integrity of our environment and […]