I know what you might be thinking: why did I even join the whale shark watchers in Oslob if I was against the practice?
Category: oh, Mother!
just trying to help save the environment
The West Valley Fault line and why we should care
Since the fault line takes every 400 to 600 years to have a disturbance, then we are due for another big one in about four decades.
Okay, pine: a Busol tree-logy
“Buwis-buhay ka talaga (you really defy death),” my friend Suzanne said when I insisted on climbing Busol again after more than a year. It’s been raining for days, and we were told that climbing the mountain would be trickier, if not dangerous. We did anyway, twice: once in June and another in July. Bloom in…
Chasing rainfalls in Baguio
Call me ignorant, but I really didn’t know that the Philippines’ summer capital gets the most rainfall in the country until I read World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Philippines’ climate change risk assessment on Baguio (Business Risk Assessment and the Management of Climate Change Impacts). I learned more about this when I had the chance to…
Resurrecting Busol
I was fortunate enough to climb up the Busol Watershed and Forest Reservation in Benguet (between the boundaries of Baguio City and La Trinidad) recently. I am not an expert on trees, but I do my share in helping Mother Earth recover from her illness the best I can. In this piece, I am sharing…
