There are spots in the city that need to be saved.
“Citing the abundance of plant and animal life despite the encroaching pollution, Navotas officials, starting with the village leaders of Barangay Tanza, are asking the government to declare the mudflats and Sitio Pulo a critical habitat and eco-tourism area,’ reports Nathaniel R. Melican in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The report then went on to describe Sitio Pulo as a “30-hectare island connected to the mainland by a 500-meter-long bamboo bridge.” It used to be a nature sanctuary (albeit an unofficial one) until informal settlers started moving in. Sitio Pulo is currently home to 137 indigent families.
Sitio Pulo’s resources reportedly got threatened “when informal settlers began moving in, cutting down mangroves for firewood and catching birds for food.”
This was why, according to the report, “the barangay had declared Sitio Pulo a marine tree park, which on paper means the villagers themselves must protect it or at least keep it green.”
It looks like more effort has to be done to save Sitio Pulo.
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