As our population growth continues to expand, our natural resources starts to disappear.
Creating of buildings, different infrastructures, illegal logging, mining and other acts causes damage to our environment. These things have been the cause of flash flood, landslide or soil erosion that we are experiencing and still continue to experience not only here in our country, but worldwide.
In connection with this, the Philippines observed the month of June as “Environment Month/Day” as part of the country’s commitment to the preservation and conservation of the environment and natural resources that was inclined with the Presidential Proclamation No. 237 signed by then President Corazon C. Aquino.
This activity aims to persuade every individual, businesses, schools, governments and others to partake and commit themselves in protecting our natural resources.
Philippines’ is an archipelago of 7,107 islands, but the country does not fall under the category of small island states.
According to Philippine Statistics Authority – National Statistical Coordination Board (PSA-NSCB), the Philippines has a total land area of 30,000,000 which 14,207,582 of these are alienable and disposable lands, while 15,792,418 of these are forest lands.
Infographics designed by Alan Kevin Manio
Research by Mary Rose Faith Bonalos