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Environment - Center of Marine Biodiversity of Earth And Manila Bay

Environment - Center of Marine Biodiversity of Earth And Manila Bay Visayan Sea – On the brink of collapse What we have done Questions: What can we do together?. ENVIRONMENT?. Environment- is NOT about birds and bees, LIFE and Sources of Life Land, Air and Water (LAW)

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Environment - Center of Marine Biodiversity of Earth And Manila Bay

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  1. Environment - Center of Marine Biodiversity of Earth And Manila Bay Visayan Sea – On the brink of collapse What we have done Questions: What can we do together?

  2. ENVIRONMENT?

  3. Environment- is NOT about birds and bees, LIFE and Sources of Life Land, Air and Water (LAW) Vital Organs of LIFE - Trees and forests- Lungs • Land & soil - skin and flesh • Sea and waterways – blood and bloodstreams • 70% of the human body and of the Earth is water

  4. Foundation of all economic activities • Economy is only a very minor subsidiary of the Life-Support Systems (Life Sources) • What will we do with money if you do not have water, air is dirty, and food is poisoned

  5. Economic development Based on use, abuse and misuse of the life sources

  6. Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998 - 2001 • 6 volumes, 4218 pp > 100 experts contributing Seaweeds, corals, bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, crustaceans, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes, sea turtles, sea snakes, estuarine crocodile, and marine mammals

  7. The Indo-Malay-Philippine Archipelago (IMPA) – the CENTER OF MARINE WEALTH ON EARTH

  8. The “PHILIPPINES IS THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ON EARTH” – Dr. Kent Carpenter/ UN FAO Study

  9. September 13, 2004

  10. Water Pollution: Manila Bay • 1990s-200 MPN OF FECAL COLIFORM >1,000,000 MPN • 1989 Sagip Ilog ng Kabite; 1993 Ateneo Law Students • 1998: UP Law 4 M GALLONS OF Raw sewage; every day • If cared for, it can provide protein for the entire metro manila • Source of great recreation – for free (not a Mall) • 90 % of what fishermen catch was pure garbage • Lack of Political will!

  11. Solution? • Supplant lack of political will with the --- • WILL, FORCE and POWER, of the Law • Have the Plan Implemented

  12. Almost 4 years Jan 1999-Sept 2002

  13. Thank you, PSAF and OSG Pro bono … 2006, now in the Supreme Court

  14. News articles

  15. Oral Argument in the Supreme Court August 12, 2008 • News articles:

  16. Why revolutionary? It creates an upheaval. Turn their world upside down and light a match under their butts

  17. Arifi Zakaria NOT the small fry, syndicate leaders RAID IN BOHOL one ton = 6,000 sticks

  18. DEC. 16, 2004: Cavite LARGEST IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY3 kms of detonating fuse

  19. 30,000 sticks, thank you IBP! Jovy

  20. De La Victoria earlier told reporters that he received information that there was a One Million reward for the person who could assassinate him and Oposa. KALA Mulqueeny

  21. Sea-borne Operation • Blast fishermen • Commercial fishing intrusions

  22. TRIAL AND CONVICTION – 2 weeksSENDING A MESSAGE Law enforcement must be swift, painful and public

  23. CREATIVE PENOLOGY

  24. Adversaries to Allies Program Our version of ‘Politics is addition’

  25. 10 this May and June 2009Proposed marine protected areas network map 36 SITES 16 SITES 18 SITES 3 SITES Control Marine Resources Criminality

  26. Curing the symptomsNot the cause of the disease

  27. Law, Policy and Paradigm • Law is nothing more than policy distilled in legal form and language • Policy is a mirror image of Paradigm – the mindset, the way we look at the world,

  28. Take Home Messages • Environment is about Life and the Sources of Life of L.A.W. • Change Economic Development Model

  29. Development based on Consumption (syn-waste and tuberculosis) • Developed-More consumption • Wrong! • Not Developed Countries • Over-consuming Countries • Low consuming countries • Change words, meanings, mindsets

  30. We cannot solve a problem … • Opposite development paradigm– • CPR Economics Conservation, Protection and Restoration (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation of the Vital Organs of Life – Land-Soil, Forests – heart and lungs, blood

  31. What can we do together • Spratly Islands as ASEAN Heritage Park • Environmental Ombudsman

  32. Thank you • ADB and Kala Mulqueeny • UNEP-Bakary Kante and Wanhua Yang • Republic of Indonesia Supreme Court Harifin Tumpa and the Indonesian Friends – Bambang, Santosa, • Everyone .. For your efforts – past and future for the protection of life, the sources of life. • Favor – OCC and LCC

  33. SHARED A LITTLE OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE • ANYTHING that is worth doing cannot be done in one lifetime • Perhaps in the destiny of people of follow the path of their ideals toi realize that the path is endless, that in walking it we do not find the end of the path, rather we only find the joy of walking.

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