Office of the Ombudsman Philippines to charge over illegal cutting.

This week the Office of the Ombudsman in the Philippines is pressing ahead with charges against officials of the National Power Corp and their subcontratcors after they illegal cut more down mangroves in Puerto Princesa 2008.

Full story Cutting of mangrove leads to charges  in the Philippine Daily Inquirer

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Changing attitudes towards mangrove restoration

Going Green: Mangrove Preservation

An Interesting news clip from the Philippines ANC channel (broadcasted on August 20^th) which talks about the importance of mangroves and the need to change the approaches and attitudes towards planting.

The clip highlights the fact that mangrove restoration should be conducted in abandon fishponds and not on mud flats and seagrass beds which has been the case so far. The case so far for planting in these wrong areas as pointed out in the clip is due to political tension over land ownership of the abandon fishponds which has led to other areas being sought for planting. Planting is also criticised for being aimed at increasing area instead of being aimed at restoration of historical and traditional sites.

It really nice to hear others advocating what I have been talking about for such a long time………

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New Tech Page

Just added new tech page which will hold information about projects I am working on, the first projects on the pages are:

• Philippines Project Software and Hardware
• Digital Newsletter
• QR codes

More to follow………

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