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SW09 DECEMBER 5, 2022

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THE BIODIVERSITY IN THE PHILIPPINES

One of the world's seventeen giant nations is the Philippines. The widest variety of life
forms, including plants and animals that are almost exclusively unique to this region, call it
home. The Philippines, which has one of the longest coastlines in the world with a length of
37,000 eight kilometers, is thought to have 26,000 square kilometers of coral reefs including
mangroves, reef fish, sea grass, algae oils, dolphins, and marine turtles. All natural systems on
which human life is based are given life through biodiversity. Biodiversity is essential to the
continuation of human life in all its forms, from controlling nature's destructive forces by
maintaining the chemical balance in our environment to regulating the Earth's seasonal cycles.

Health, food, and energy are the three main requirements of humans that biodiversity
helps to meet. Approximately 50% of the medicines we use today in the pharmaceutical business
come from natural resources. Human nutrition and food production are both influenced by
biodiversity. Additionally, it provides energy sources and timber to industry. By removing
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, trees keep the planet from heating up. Deadly storms are a
result of the planet's warming. Deformation of forests and illegal wildlife are causes of severe
flooding and landslides. The world's biodiversity is currently threatened by trade and forest loss,
particularly in the Philippines, which is now recognized as one of the world's centers for
biodiversity loss.

The ecosystem is directly impacted by human actions including illicit logging, careless
mining, unsustainable farming, and overfishing. the lack of concern for the effects that humanity
as a whole is having on the environment, such as failing to take into account renewable energy
alternatives. According to a number of variables listed in the Philippine Biodiversity Strategy

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and Action Plan, this is the cause of the biodiversity's decline (PBSAP). Ignoring the idea of
conservation, failing to cut back on our personal use, as well as failing to recycle reusable
products, puts further strain on the fragile ecology. With the decline in biodiversity, it has been
suggested that man may have unwittingly begun to dig his own grave.

The difficult balance between human needs and long-term sustainability is being strained
by the effects of human behavior on the environment. If allowed to continue on its current
destructive course, biodiversity may soon vanish from human memory. People in the country can
protect the environment and save their fellow citizens, but each one must play a part in halting
environmental deterioration. They have a wide range of abilities, including effective waste
disposal and replacing incandescent lights with energy-efficient ones. They can do a lot to reduce
the tension in the atmosphere by working together. Avoiding buying wildlife that has been sold
illegally helps protect the survival of many species and help to preserve our biodiversity.

Education on the wealth and diversity of plants and animals in the nation would be made
possible through visits to and interactions with protected biodiversity sites across the country. It
is certain that there will be a reasonable and ongoing source of the goods if consumers support
sustainability advocacy. By respecting the rights of indigenous communities to manage their
sacred sites like forests, rivers, lakes, and caves, and by promoting and supporting sustainable
tourism, this will also ensure that the country's rural communities have a sustainable way of life.
This will support biodiversity conservation.

Government programs such as identifying institutions that promote sustainable practices

foster long-term awareness of our shared responsibility towards biological diversity conservation
let us share the responsibility. Conserving biodiversity for the future generations of children.
This is the Philippine, the rich and abundant country in terms of many habitats and such
biodiversity.