Maria Ana Remedios E.

Gonzalez SCIENVB A51

Issue: Environmental degradation of The Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism
Area (LPPCHEA)
Reason for choosing issue: Parañaque is my hometown and the environmental degradation of LPPCHEA
affects the city beyond the actual wetland area. I have also been invited to a yearly cleanup, which clearly
shows that the root cause of improper waste disposal has not been solved.

Fertile farm Tourism and

Storm buffer Flood control Carbon sink
land recreation

Loss of Consumption of
Toxic waste
wetland seafood that
inhalation
benefits ingested plastic

Effects on animals Effects on people Effects on environment

Toxic waste Plastics

Health Loss of polluting land polluting soil
Effects of degradation
hazards of habitat for
plastics animals

ENVIRONMENTAL
DEGRADATION OF
LPPCHEA

Pollution Form of degradation Danger of land

conversion

causes
Solutions Causes

Trash flow from Trash from tourists

Manila Bay & residents residents Business
development

Individual Government

Practice waste Protest against Strictly impose

company land rules against
disposal and
conversion land conversion
educate
References:

Rocamora, J. (2019, October 12). Metro Manila is more than a corporate jungle: DOT. Retrieved July 06,
2020, from https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1082990

Top 10 Benefits of Wetlands. (2015). Retrieved from https://www.earthshare.org/wetlands/

Wulff, P., & Roppongi, H. (2014, September 26). Development and the 'Wise Use' of Urban Wetlands in
Manila Bay. Retrieved July 06, 2020, from https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/development-and-the-wise-
use-of-urban-wetlands-in-manila-bay

Zambas, K. (2019, December 13). Unwanted visitors: A trip to LPPCHEA. Retrieved July 06, 2020, from
https://www.manilatimes.net/2019/12/14/business/green-business/unwanted-visitors-a-trip-to-
lppchea/664115/