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Satellite image of the Philippines in March 2002 showing forest cover in dark green Small-scale logging and coal-making operations at the lower areas of the Sierra Madre mountain range. As in other Southeast Asian countries, deforestation in the Philippines is a major environmental issue.
At a hearing of the House of Representatives on March 12, 2024, the mayor of Maco, Voltaire Rimando said that in 2017 and 2021, the MGB issued geohazard certificates that allowed the local government to rebuild in areas of Barangay Masara that had been affected by the 2008 landslide and was again struck by the 2024 landslide. [36]
As a result of this deforestation, the Philippines had one of the highest forest losses in the Asia-Pacific region at the turn of the century. [12] The large extent of forest loss in the country can be illustrated by the change from the country being a “major exporter of tropical logs in the late 1950s until 60s to now being a major importer ...
A Writ of Kalikasan is a legal remedy under Philippine law that provides protection of one's constitutional right to a healthy environment, as outlined in Section 16, Article II of the Philippine Constitution, which states that the "state shall protect and advance the right of the people to a balanced and healthful ecology in accord with the ...
Eden: People+Planet (formerly Eden Reforestation Projects) is a nonprofit NGO that works in developing countries to rebuild natural landscapes destroyed by deforestation. Eden works directly with communities experiencing extreme poverty resulting from the deforestation and destruction of the land that sustains them.
Particularly, the construction of the road was said to have ecological concerns in that it might affect the Sierra Madre, one of the large untouched forested areas in the Philippines. Some environmental organizations expressed their concerns on issues such as deforestation and habitat destruction. [ 6 ]
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Deforestation in the Philippines; I. ... This page was last edited on 14 March 2024, ...
The Palawan rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID:IM0143) covers the Palawan Island Archipelago, centered on Palawan Island, the sixth largest island in the Philippines.The islands act as an ecological bridge between Borneo and the main islands of the Philippines, even though there were channels between the islands through the last ice age when sea levels were low.