Our beautiful and diverse marine resources and wealth need your attention and your help. They are under attack.
Exploitative foreign firms, in tandem with local partners and left unchecked by irresponsible government officials, are illegally harvesting and peddling our precious coral reefs. In one case, coral reefs twice the size of Manila was destroyed, and the plunder continues.
We cannot accept this. We must act now to save what’s left of our coral reefs and to protect our seas so those beautiful and important natural resources are preserved for our and the next generations to enjoy.
We call on all Filipino bloggers, Tumblr and Posterous users, Tweeps, Plurkers and all netizens to join the June 8 International Blog Action Day to save our seas and coral reefs. Your voices, our actions are that important.
What we will do:
- Tweet, Plurk, or post to spread the word about this event: Share or repost this announcement (and please link back to this post).
- Use the Twitter hashtag #reefwatchPH and/or #savePHseas.
- Spread the savephilippineseas.com URL.
- Display and share our official campaign badge (see below).
- Register your website/blog to let us know that you’re joining our effort to spread the word — you’ll find the registration form on the sidebar of this site. If you’re using more than one site (no Facebook or Twitter URLs, please), register each of them separately.
- Most importantly, on June 8, join the Blog Action Day from your favorite social media channels (blog, Tumblr, Posterous, Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, etc.)
Some ideas and suggestions
While the issue is serious, there are a lot of creative ways to send our message across on or before June 8:
- An open letter to officials and companies.
- A photo essay about your favorite beaches or dive spots.
- Design and share mini-posters, posters and drawings.
- If you grew up near a beach, tell us about your fond memories.
- Post about why your (future) kids and future grandkids ought to have the chance to see and enjoy our coral reefs and seas.
- Why harvesting and peddling corals is bad for the environment and is bad business.
- Proposals on how to protect or clean up our seas.
- If you belong to a clan, group, or organization, invite them to join the event.
Taking an extra step or two won’t harm too. You may email your senator, congressman, the Environment secretary, and even the President to demand action.
NOW is the time to act
We can do this. Let’s make our social media work for something good. Let’s make Philippine coral reefs, seas and the need to save them the trend – to raise awareness, to inspire action, to grow our communities, and to compel government action.
Blog Action Day campaign badges
Please use any of the codes below to display the Save Philippine Seas badge on your website or blog.
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mas ok kung mapapanatili natin ang kaayusan ng isla kung di lang nagtatapon ng mga basura ang mga taong nakatira doon. kaya naman dapat malinis ang isla sa bawat lugar.
I will join to your campaign. This is the fight to save our marine environment!!!
i will join the campaign! its my little way of giving back to mother nature what she had done for me to survive. let us all be one in creating change! now is the perfect time.
I’m in! Let’s spread campaign awareness and be united against destruction of nature’s wonders.
The question of protectiing oceans and seas is tremendous for natural ressources conservation as it is noted in the biodiversity convention and climate change ones. Above the Abidjan Convention is an international instruments for helping countries and NGOs for pushing te public participation. So we are all concern to struggle against destruction of nature’s wonders an Sheenah Tan said.
This is of utmost importance. We are an archipelago. If we destroy the oceans around us, we are doomed. Nothing can save us.
Count me in!
The power of teamwork will surely get this job done!
Ok GOGOGO June 8, 2011
life is a chain-reaction. if we leave the rape of our seas go unchecked, sooner the effects will be felt by us and most importantly by our children and their children.
Thank you for organizing this. We need to be vigilant about protecting our natural resources. I will be sure to spread the word about this!!
Also please let me know if there is anything else I can help with aside from the ideas and suggestions stated. I am willing to donate my time for this cause!
for our future generation, let’s make this happen!
it would be helpful if this event is listed here >> http://www.worldoceansday.org/
We are with you in this effort to save our marine environment. Please let us know what we can do to help. Thank you.
Sana gumising na ang ating pamahalaan at buong mamamayan upang tugunan ang tawag ng kalikasan.
BE AWARE !!!
plunder to our beautiful seas are done by mega greedy animals. we can file a case against these creatures to test the potency of the Environmental Law. Calling lawyers who would cooperate pro bono! Meanwhile, we all do our share of saving our seas in our respective places whatever our status and positions are. we keep a strong bond among ourselves and encourage all people–Filipinos and other nationals– to love and actively protect the seas.
im joining for this crusade to preserve our people, our nature and our treasures…nature at its best should remind us to cherish God’s bestowed beauty to our sea.
This is in time for the said Reclamation of Boracay Island. Save our nature, save our seas
Because I was aghast at “rape” of our seas, and because China has twice intruded on our maritime sovereignty, I promote this blog. Every coral, every atoll, every living thing on our seas is owned by every Filipino and the next gen. I can’t stand by and watch our national treasures get destroyed simply because of greed. Let us save our seas, for the Filipino nation, and for our future generations!
I will def support this cause.
count me in!
Yeah I Will surely support this cause. This will save our our dying seas.
Save Seas! Save People! Save Us!
Go.Go.Go
hope there will be an activity on a local level for us to actively participate also…. stand-up bloggers
This is one of those times when blogging can make a difference! I will definitely join this great cause!
i will join your campaign too..
buzz me if u need to mobilize people
or spread the awareness of this dilemma
its time to act
and we should act NOW!
I’ve just joined.Thanks.
hi-do you have any high res piI of the campaign that I can use in my photoblog so that I can spread the word/ thanks
my email address is pakaleklalawak@yahoo.com
thanks thanks
The Philippines and DENR has more than a 100 Environmental Laws, Acts, Presidential Orders galore that are almost never implemented nor enforced.
Conservation and Social Responsibility is a MULTI-government and sectoral cooperation: DENR, DILG-LGUs, DepED to educate the youth and children, and especially DoJ, to strictly enforce the laws and punish the pundits! Business and Community also have to DO their part to OBEY the laws and PROTECT the ENVIRONMENT.
Philippine Sustainability: Environment, Community, Economy
Just joined!
Forgot to post the link to my blog post about this: http://akotosidennis.com/2011/06/08/save-our-coral-reefs-and-seas/
http://earthfriendlylolita.blogspot.com/2011/06/lolitas-in-boracay-philippines-june-8.html
joined!
http://fishytalks.com/save-the-philippine-seas-and-coral-reefs/
I’ve painted a few digipaintings after my dives. I’m not exactly sure what to do with them. Haha.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.486840450999.274530.645975999&l=d63addce41
-J!
I will join.Life is precious to me.The oceans/seas and any water form are part of our existence.In our own little ways, we can effect change BIG TIME.
Namaste!
We can no longer be fence-sitters on this one. Our own survival is at stake. Now is the time to take action against the plunderer of our seas.
I have posted and tweeted my blog entry here. =====>
http://snowy-lookingforyourhalf-orange.blogspot.com/2011/06/will-future-still-see-its-majesty.html
Joining this!
http://bonheurbelle.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/save-our-coral-reefs-and-seas/
m on your advocacy… will this suffice the registration
we have borrowed from future generations. It is an obligation to pay back. We have a duty to keep our environment safe for future generations.
I joined. I couldn’t find the form to fill out lol
Thanks for the support, Jules! The registration form is on the sidebar (left side) of the site.
Count me in. I think it’s high time that we give a collective effort to fight the plunderers of our natural resources.
Hi,
much more important that fighting against selling marine “products” ( which for sure is wrong if the species are endangered, I totally agree ) is to protect the environment against dynamite fishing.
THIS should be your first project!
When I was diving in the PI last time ( and I am there twice a year and dive alot ) at one dive there were 14 explosions in the vicinity. We heard the detonations more or less every day, saw the destruction under water, broken corals, dead fish, sediment on the corals.
The protection of the reefs against dynamite and cyanite fishing is most important, than you can go on…
Kind regards
Oceanlady
Check out the Reef Ball Foundation, great orgainiztion:
http://www.reefball.org
These can be constructed locally to help save your reefs. Good luck!!
I’ve seen those reef balls (or reef domes) in Maasim, Sarangani, when I went diving at Lemlunay Resort.
this served as my support to the advocacy and registration of my blog….http://www.gumasa.blogspot.com. More power!
A homage on the occasion of World Ocean Day. Millions of years ago life sprang out of the oceans, let us do all that we can to make sure that the oceans continue to live and we along with it. Save Our Seas! http://tumblr.com/xhx2wk9wlb
WELL NOW ….FOR WHAT PURPOSE DID THE FILIPINOS ELECT NOYNOY AQUINO FOR ?
SHOULDN’T HE SPEARHEAD THIS CRUSADE AGAINST THE WANTON DESTRUCTION OF PHILIPPINE MARINE ECOSYSTEM ?
OR IS HE REALLY LIKE HIS INUTILE MOM . CORY ,
WHO OCCUPIED THE HIGHEST POSITION IN THE LAND ….FOR NOTHING ?
AND WHAT ARE THE PHILIPPINE NAVY / COAST GUARDs ACTIVE COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST THE IRREPARABLE HARM THAT THESE UNSCRUPULOUS OPERATORS ARE DOING TO THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT ?
THEY MUST BE QUITE BUSY ELSEWHERE
INTERCEPTING LOCAL FISHERMEN AND CONFISCATING THEIR CATCH .
PRISTINE CORALS ARE NOT THE ONLY NATURAL RESOURCE THAT IS CONSTANTLY DEFILED
THE ONCE VIRGIN FORESTS
ARE BEING REPEATEDLY GANG-RAPED
WITH THE COMPLICITY OF CORRUPT PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT AND SECTORS OF IT’S SELFISHLY IGNORANT POPULACE .
hi, i’m a biology teacher here in NYC. gusto ko sanang mag apply para maging volunteer.Paano? hope to hear from you. salamat.
hi! we’re all just volunteers here actually
all doing different things, coming from different backgrounds also. how would you like to help?
I’m in! I will join your campaign! Let’s save Philippines seas!
surf blog w/ savephilippineseas badge .
see: surf trip tips