WWF, to raise awareness on environment sustainability on PH rural areas
With the motto ”Building a future in which people live and nature thrive,” World Wide Fund Philippines’ latest nexus project aims to conserve natural resources by creating a sustainable environment for future generations.
WWF Philippines Communications and Media Manager, Gregg Yan, explained in an interview that the nexus’ goal can only be achieved if people, especially those in poor urban and rural setting, be given livelihood and be educated on the importance of protecting and sustaining the environment.
“Some people learn through non-formal education, through the school of life, just look at how Yolanda and Ondoy changed the people’s perspective when it comes to disaster preparedness,” said Yan.
“That is how climate change skeptics turned to be firm believers now of climate change,” he added.
He explained that the nexus project has a holistic approach to the current environmental situations that the Philippines face. They are establishing a long term goal with this project by incorporating alternative livelihood to the people who partake on activities that harm the ecosystem.
Yan discussed that in order to have a sustained environment, it is important that the lowest level of the ecosystem should be sustained as well. “It is in the lowest level of the system where the source of food is – for most predators, even for us humans,” said Yan.
He believes that the smallest and lowest creatures in the ecosystem have greater impact in the whole system rather than those on the top.
With the nexus project as the core focus of WWF Philippines now, they aim to work out the project on each of their stations nationwide as many as possible. ###
