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Environmental Issues in the
Philippines
The Philippines
90 million people
7,104 islands
Directly in the
vicinity of the
typhoon belt (up to
27 typhoons a year)
Poverty, uneven development, weak
state institutions that
protect natural
resources
Typhoon Frank hit the central islands of
the Philippines in 2008.Pearl Suyo shares her experience of the typhoon’s effect in the city
of Iloilo.
Typhoon Ondoy hit Manila in 2009.
Bob Soledad shares her experience of the floods that hit Manila
suburb of Marikina.
Typhoon Pepeng hit the northern
Philippines in 2009.Robert Fugaban shares his experience of the devastation in
Tuguegarao City.
Environmental degradation
Pollution
Air pollution
Water pollution
Solid waste
Destruction of
resources
Deforestation
Mining
Ill-planned cities have extreme traffic
congestion.Traffic along EDSA, the main thoroughfare of Metro Manila.
The Philippines still relies heavily on coal
and oil for electricity generation.Masinloc Coal Powerplant in Zambales on the island of Luzon
provides power to Metro Manila.
Old factories along waterways still contribute greatly to air and water pollution.
This factory is situated beside the Pasig River, the main river running
through Metro Manila.
Destitute communities beside waterways use the
river as their sewage system.
Several shanties like this are found just beside the waterways that
run through Metro Manila.
Despite laws to regulate it, most of the
garbage in the Philippines go to landfills.This landfill, the Payatas Dumpsite in Northern Manila, is where most of the garbage goes to. Recycling and composting are still not thoroughly implemented.
Deforestation in
the Philippines
has dramatically
decreased forest
cover over the
past century.
Deforestation is due to conversion of land to use
for agriculture, housing or for logging purposes.
Kaingin is a local term for burning down a patch of the forest to
make the land fertile for farming.
Deforestation causes soil erosion.
In 2005, Leyte was hit by a typhoon that caused a massive landslide. It buried the entire town of Guinsaugon, causing up to 20,000 deaths in just a week.
Mining has also
increased in the
Philippines.
Mining inherently disturbs ecosystems and
pollutes tremendously.This open pit mine in Quezon province on the Island of Luzon
extracts nickel. The pond is heavily polluted.