My Personal Action Plan to Achieve Ecological Sustainability

Easy but helpful ways to achieve Ecological Sustainability

            I will make my own garden in my backyard so that i can at least help make my own place greener. I would be willing to join any organization that would be a hands-on project like planting trees and picking up trash. I will offer my help to my neighbors and ask if they need help on garden work. I will sort my trash into biodegradable and non-biodegradable so that it would be easier for my helpers to take out the trash. I will encourage my family to refrain from going pointless shopping in distant places to reduce our consumption of gasoline and reduce air pollution. I will buy organic products more often so that there would be less manufactured products

Indigenous and Endangered Plant and Animal Species withing the Philippines and measures taken to conserve, preserve, and protect these species at a border level

 Indigenous and Endangered Plant and Animal species within the Philippines 

                         The Philippines has a lot of endangered plants and animal life like the Philippine eagle, Philippine Tarsier, and genus Rafflesia. They are endangered primarily because of urbanization which would cause the animals to migrate to different places and they would have a hard time to adapt to a new ecosystem or the animal would become isolated from the rest of its kind. If the quantity of a certain species becomes very low the chances of the species to stay alive becomes very low as well because they would have a lower chance to reproduce. The plant life who reproduce asexually would face a different problem like competition for water and sunlight with other plant life. They can affect different ecosystems when they migrate because they could increase the amount of competition in the area and make native animals or plants have a hard time to thrive or survive in their native place. 

     

                     More than 290 areas in the Philippines are under protected status. These include national parks, national marine parks and reserves, game refuges, bird sanctuaries, mangrove forest reserves and wilderness areas. Many protected areas have been haphazardly managed, but implementation of the National Integrated Protected Areas System law means they have to conform to government guidelines.

              Conservation efforts in the Philippines have historically been hampered by shortage of funds, lack of technical expertise and weak or conflicting government policies. However, the government's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, which is being implemented in stages, is intended to resolve these problems and provide a cohesive, nationwide system of conservation management.

                           The people who do land clearing usually don't care whether or not there is an endangered plant species so long as they get paid. The Tarsier is being well protected by the people in Bohol because when i visited the place where they let us view the Tarsier, they gave us a short seminar of the rules inside the area and they made sure there are workers stationed on posts to make sure the people are following the rules. These endangered species also have a role in our ecosystem like the insect eating plants because reducing the number of harmful insects in the area.

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Image source:http://animalstime.com/endangered-animals-in-the-philippines-top-5-endangered-species/

Information source: http://traveltips.usatoday.com/endangered-animals-philippines-100068.html

Ecological Degradation and Measures Taken Towards Rehabilitation within One's Community

 Ecological Degradation


                  Soil degradation is defined as the process which lowers the current or future capacity of the soil to produce goods or services. It implies long-term decline in soil productivity and its environment-moderating capacity. This problem is much more serious in tropical than in temperate areas since tropical soils are more prone to degradation because of the nature of their properties and the prevalent climatic conditions. Countries in Asia and Africa that depend upon agriculture as the engine of economic growth are believed to suffer the greatest impact of soil degradation. In the Philippines, soil degradation is one of the most serious ecological problems today.
                    The major threat to our ecosystem in the Philippines are land clearing, unsustainable fishing, and pollution. We contribute to this problem without even knowing it ourselves like by wasting our materials like pencils, papers, and food. The wastes from the factories that make our everyday things causes pollution in the air, sea, and land depending where the waste is thrown away and these affect animals, plants, and humans in a negative way. The illegal or extensive cutting down of trees does a lot of negative effects to the ecosystem like destroying habitats of animals and by cutting down trees,
it lessens our supply of oxygen and reduces the amount of carbon dioxide being used. The animals in the ecosystem relies on feeding off of plants or animals that eat plants so clearing forest lands would cause the animals to have a hard time to search for food. The roots of plants are what help keep the soil firm and they gather water from the soil so if the plant life is removed, the soil is vulnerable to soil erosion and flooding.


We can also help resolve this problem by doing simple things like throwing trash properly even if the trash isn't ours so that drainage systems won't be clogged up and floods would be prevented. Planting trees is being encouraged in our community so that floods and soil erosion will be prevented to keep our environment clean. The Boys Scouts of the Philippines are also helping keep the community clean by picking up trashes found lying on the ground and planting more plants around the school vicinity. I pick up the pieces of trash around my home even if it is not mine nothing will get finished if you just tell others to pick it up so I have to take initiative. Hopefully, the people would realize and try to solve this problem even just by doing a little because if everyone will help, it will go a long way.

source of information:http://classroom.synonym.com/degradation-ecosystem-philippines-23752.html

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5957388

http://soil-environment.blogspot.com/2010/03/soil-degradation-in-philippines.html