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Ⅰ . EX

FINITION
DE Ecological Integrity is an
internationally used framework that
guides the states into achieving goals
on conserving biodiversity, restoring
ecosystems, and building
environmental resiliency, by
implementing legal mandates,
monitoring programs, etc.

Lived Experience HAPPENING TO THEM

While the ongoing environmental crisis spares
no one, the people most vulnerable to its
damaging effects are those people in the lower
parts of society — living in areas too prone to
destructive disasters, being too poor to cope,
and having been too discarded to be protected
in the first place. While the elite are busy
pushing their own agendas, for the sake of a
development that is of most benefit only to
them, the least, the lost and the last are the
ones left crushed under the weight of a cross
On a global scale, citizens of the world’s most
economically suffering countries, such as Haiti and
Timor-Leste, are heavily burdened by the
consequences brought about by Climate Change.
As these are the same people dependent on
natural resources for their livelihood, the decline
of such resources, may it be in quantity or quality,
due to a rapid change in environmental factors,
causes great strain to their income. This is also
evident in the Philippines, where agriculture,
fisheries, and forestry amount to 10% of the

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that is not even theirs to carry. country’s GDP and 30% for national employment.

takeholders:
It is the government that holds the utmost influence, and makes the
most impactful decisions when it comes to integrating Ecological
Integrity into the nation’s laws and operations, where environmental
collective action can flourish.

The corporations are massive contributors to production, emissions,

and wastes; thus, they are the duty bearers, for they must do their
jobs all the while upholding corporate responsibility for the
environment.

The citizens, as key actors, must still be held accountable, for with
their public support, neither the government nor the corporations
can exercise as much power.

Ⅱ . Analysis
Positive Outcomes: How can we contribute?
Resiliency and resistance :
Ecosystems with higher ecological integrity are Individual : Simplest thing to do
more adaptable and resistant to changes in the as an individual at home is to
severity of environmental stress. The ability of reduce, reuse, and recycle the
organisms, groups, and communities to withstand materials used like plastics,
increases in stress without displaying noticeable boxes and other reusable things.
reactions is referred to as resistance, and the Use renewable energy resources
capacity to recover back from adversity is referred to like solar and wind.
as resilience.
Community : People who can
create a change, will have a huge
impact to the community.
The ability to maintain natural ecological values: Ecological Integrity can prevent
God created the world, plants, animals, humans, and the spread of pollution, wildfire,
habitats. Ecosystems with higher ecological integrity are radiation stress, etc. if
able to sustain their species, communities, and other key everything around is green.
traits naturally without the need for human
administration.

Genesis 1:26:
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and
over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Conclusion
Maintaining or restoring the diversity of genes, species, and communities
that are typical for the area is the greatest way to achieve the goal of
preserving ecological integrity. Simply put, if components are missing, the
ecosystem is not complete, which is commensurate with the integrity BY: GROUP 1
GERALI, Nadine
notion of "wholeness." PAGUSARA, Niña
PETRACORTA, Rhile
TOLEDO, January

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