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ACTIVITIES TO THE
STABILITY OF ECOSYSTEMS
Dynamic equilibrium – despite
environmental changes,
normal ecological processes
can take place without
considerable disruption.
DEFORESTATION
Land classification for 2001 PHILIPPINES
65.60%
19.30%
8.80%
4.20% 2.10%
INDISCRIMINATE LOGGING
SHIFTING CULTIVATION (KAINGIN FARMING)
FOREST FIRES
NATURAL CALAMITIES
CONVERSION TO AGRICULTRAL LAND
HUMAN SETTLEMENTS (FOREST DWELLERS)
EFFECTS OF DEFORESTATION
Greater erosion
More floods
Lessincome for people who livelihood depends on
forest products
Less
protection of fragile ecosystems from typhoon
winds and rains.
WILDLIFE
POLLUTANTS:
Compounds of sulfur
Compounds of nitrogen
WHAT DO WE NEED?
UNITY!
SUSTAINABLE ETHICS
AND
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
“A sustainable society lives within the
carrying capacity of the environment”.
This means that the rate at which those
resources are regenerated .
Conservation of resources
Recycling of materials
Regeneration of renewable
resources
Restoration of damaged
ecosystems
ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
Presidential
decree no. 1152 (otherwise known as the
Philippine environmental codes) gives the
governments management policy on wildlife . It states
that the government shall pursue a system of careful
use and conservation of wildlife resources.
Republic act no. 758 (otherwise known as the National
Integrated Protected Areas System act of 1992 or
NIPAS). It provides for the establishment and
management of national integrated protected areas
system, to include “biological important public lands
that are habitats of rare and endangered species of
plants and animals, biogeographic zones and related
ecosystems, whether terrestrial , wetland, marine.”
Republic act no. 428 amended by Republic act no. 1538 – law
that declares as illegal the use, possession, sale, or destruction of
fish and other aquatic animals by means of dynamite, explosives
or other toxic substances.
Republic act no. 1533 amended by Republic act no. 4003; and
Presidential decree no. 704 amended by Presidential decree no.
1058 – laws increasing the penalty for the use of explosives in
fishing to capital punishment .
Republic act no. 6147 – law declaring the Philippine Eagle, also
known as monkey-eating Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyii), as
protected bird in the Philippines, providing for the preservation of
the same and authorizing the appropriation of funds for the
purpose, it prohibits the hunting of the eagle as well as the
collection of its eggs and destruction of its habitat.
Presidential decree no. 389 amended by Presidential
decree no. 705 (otherwise known as the forestry
reform code) which revises ad updates all forestry
laws in the Philippines.
Presidentialdecree no. 330 and Presidential decree
no. 953 – laws that penalize illegal cutting of trees, this
means that you cannot just cut down tree; you have
to have a government permit for that.
Presidential decree no.953 and Presidential decree
no. 1153 – laws on tree planting
Presidential
decree no. 331- law requiring all forests to
be developed on a sustainable yield basis.