Navigating the Bohol Sea
An eco-literature project in Bohol has enabled a group of students to reconnect with the environment, talk to fishermen and then produce literary pieces about their struggles amid commercial fishing and climate change.
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An eco-literature project in Bohol has enabled a group of students to reconnect with the environment, talk to fishermen and then produce literary pieces about their struggles amid commercial fishing and climate change.
In Bohol, like many parts of the country, the poor are forced to live in riverbanks, on steep slopes or close to the sea, making them vulnerable to natural calamities.
Two years after typhoon Odette swept away homes and devastated communities in Bohol, villagers are back in areas identified as vulnerable to storm surges as they have no place to go.
Most schools are still recovering from the devastation. Yet, there are some that have defeated the odds, returning to what they once were as if the destruction never existed.
TAGBILARAN CITY – Nearly two years since Super Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai) battered Bohol, only 17% out of 3, 338 damaged classrooms in 366 schools all over the province have either been repaired or reconstructed.
At the rate Rodrigo Duterte was giving away the Philippines to Red China, there now arises an acute need to exorcise the country from all Red Chinese concessions that he had approved. The suspension of all 22 reclamation projects in Manila Bay is a step in the right direction.
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Environment advocates brought their demand to stop the reclamation in Manila Bay, Bulacan and other parts of the country to Mendiola, near Malacañang. They also want to hold accountable government agencies and officials allowing the destruction of the environment.
Metro Manila residents who care for the world we live in gather in the evening of March 25 at the Quezon Memorial Circle for the symbolic 60-minute switching off of lights as their contribution to save Mother Earth from man-made degradation.
Man tampers with God’s design for the Earth disturbing the natural ecosystem and displacing marine life. Photos by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files.