Palawan is home to some of the most beautiful and rarest endemic birds in the 🇵🇭. Imagine what cutting 210k+ trees will do to their kind. It's an absolute shame the @DENROfficial is allowing this.
Never beating the Department of Eradication of Natural Resources allegations.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ORDER FILED BY STUDENTS, ADVOCATES VS SAN MIGUEL CORP.
Students and environmental advocates attended a hearing before the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 41 on Monday regarding their petition for a temporary environmental protection order against San Miguel Corp. (SMC) over the massive tree cutting along Quirino Avenue in Manila.
“We are prompted to file this action in representation of the youth and those yet unborn because we also want to send a message to these corporations that are actively destroying our environment,” petitioner Joaquin Bautista said.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said there are 523 trees subject to tree-cutting and another 94 trees for earth-balling, totaling 617 trees affected to yield construction for the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEX).
Bautista said the citizen action suit aims to pursue ecological justice and accountability, stressing that SMC should rehabilitate the trees cut in Manila.
The irreparable damage from this ecological violence will be inherited by succeeding generations, sustainability and environment student Elisha Zantua said.
“It can cause catastrophic effects such as eliminating the structure of preventing soil erosion, lessening the capabilities to absorb the floodwater, and affecting the air quality around the space,” she said.
“What we really need right now is more green spaces. We shouldn’t just prioritize urban development over what the people actually need,” Zantua added.
University student and petitioner Paul Benedict Callorina lamented how decades-old trees, which have stood long before he was born, were brazenly cut for an expressway project.
“Our policies and laws should be pro-people and pro-nature,” Callorina said.
The DENR said last week that SMC has voluntarily suspended further tree-cutting activities along Quirino Avenue following the public outrage. | @andronquillo
The DENR knows what they are doing is wrong.
Not only that they cut down the trees, but also that they attempted to cover what remained of those trees under a layer of cloth and dirt.
That was some shade they made after they removed what naturally provided one.
"Walang may gusto..." PERO GINAWA NYO PA RIN
And PLEASE, is this your definition of SUSTAINABILITY? If our @DENROfficial officials have this kind of mindset, then we are DOOMED!
Rows of trees continue to be cut along Roxas Boulevard as clearing operations proceed for the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEX) project.
Photos show several trees already felled, with more marked for cutting or earth-balling. | via @eon_sanchez
(Courtesy: Elmer Valenzuela)
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Sometimes, the country’s greatest treasures grow quietly in the forest.
In Masungi, a mature narra supports an entire web of life around it. Its roots help stabilize soil, its canopy cools the forest floor, and its branches provide shelter for birds, insects, and other wildlife.
In landscapes rich in biodiversity, these quiet giants help keep ecosystems alive and connected — reminding us that some of the country’s greatest treasures are already growing around us.
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Dear President Bongbong Marcos,
Dear DENR Secretary Atty. Mitch Cuna,
Dear Mayor Isko Moreno,
Please please please, I’m begging you to stop the cutting of trees along Roxas Blvd. and Quirino Avenue.
200+ trees have been cut. 400+ trees can still be saved.
Kung kelangan talaga, gastusan ang earth balling or transfer of the trees.
Basta NO CUTTING.
May fun runs at Carless Sunday dyan sa Roxas Boulevard nuon. Tapos aalisin nyo mga puno?
Maawa kayo, please. 🙏
#SaveTheTrees
GUYS HELP wala bang pwede mag-file ng any legal remedy against this
approved na daw yung pag putol sa ROXAS BOULEVARD from manila zoo , ospital ng maynila to MALATE CHURCH/RAJAH SULAYMAN
nakalista na yung mga papatayin na trees :(
SMC had plans to build a mall inside QC Circle. Joy Belmonte preserved the park's integrity by issuing a cease-and-desist.
Isko, these female mayors have more balls than you.
ShenYue deserves better and more success to her. as for that manchild didn't know I only liked him because of ShenYue.
Anyways the only thing I'm worried about right now is regard Dengkai and Kongxueer being in his upcoming drama 🥴 Can someone replace him as the lead?
Expressways nga ba talaga ang solusyon sa traffic? This is the same rubbish argument that they used to justify the Pasig River Expressway.
More roads will mean more cars. Hangga't car-centric tayo at walang maayos na public transpo, hindi mawawala ang heavy traffic.