Status : Verified
| Personal Name | Aguirre, Leslie Ann G. |
|---|---|
| Resource Title | Sta. Lucia Research and Rescue Center: a haven for the endangered marine fauna of Palawan |
| Date Issued | 2009 |
| Abstract | The ocean has played an important part in human history, primarily for transport and to a more limited extent as a source of food. Today, it still plays that part. However, the ecological importance of the ocean must be stressed. Ocean and land are part of one big ecosystem: deterioration of the marine environment inevitable results in the deterioration of the total environment. Depletion of the forest cover also affects freshwater ecosystem such as lakes and rivers, and marine ecosystems such as sea grass and coral beds. Hundreds of terrestrial and marine species are threatened everyday with extinction due to a very high rate of deforestation, habitat destruction, degradation and loss and direct exploitation. It is vital that actions are to be done to for the conservation of this species. Those that have decreasing number must be replenished via human intervention to their normal status in the wild. Sustainability will then be achieved, thus, making sure that future inhabitants of the province will still enjoy and use these resources for whatever purpose, may it be consumption, recreational or educational. It has been said that natural resources are life support systems, without which the existence of man would be jeopardized. At the rate Palawan’s natural resources are being destroyed, its capacity to support even the existing population is severely being diminished. The need to mobilize the province’s population to protect the environment from wanton destruction is already being voiced by concerned groups and individual, even by the international community. In the past two decades, several locally and internationally-aided environmental-inclined programs have been established and strictly enforced within the premises of the province. Facilities have been built for these programs. One specializes as the refuge of endemic wildlife of the province, the Palawan Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Center (formerly the Crocodile Farming Institute). O |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Science in Architecture |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Marine research center; Marine ecotourism facilities--Palawan |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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