Environment -Center of Marine Biodiversity of EarthAnd Manila BayVisayan Sea – On the brink of collapseWhat we have doneQuestions:What can we do together?

ENVIRONMENT?ENVIRONMENT?

Environment- is NOT about

birds and bees,

LIFE and Sources of Life

Land, Air and Water (LAW)

Vital Organs of LIFE - Trees and

forests- Lungs- Land & soil - skin

and flesh- Sea and

waterways – blood and bloodstreams

- 70% of the human body and of the Earth is water

- Foundation of all economic activities

- Economy is only a very minor subsidiary of the Life-Support Systems (Life Sources)

- What will we do with money if you do not have water, air is dirty, and food is poisoned

Economic development

Based on use, abuse and misuse of the life sources

•Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998 - 2001

• 6 volumes, 4218 6 volumes, 4218 pppp > 100 experts > 100 experts contributingcontributing Seaweeds, corals, Seaweeds, corals, bivalves, bivalves, gastropods, gastropods, cephalopods, cephalopods, crustaceans, crustaceans, hagfishes, sharks, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony chimaeras, bony fishes, sea turtles, fishes, sea turtles, sea snakes, sea snakes, estuarine crocodile, estuarine crocodile, and marine and marine mammalsmammals

• The Indo-Malay-Philippine Archipelago

(IMPA) – the CENTER OF MARINE

WEALTH ON EARTH

The “PHILIPPINES IS THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ON EARTH”– Dr. Kent Carpenter/UN FAO Study

September 13, 2004

Water Pollution: Manila Bay Water Pollution: Manila Bay 1990s-200 MPN OF FECAL COLIFORM >1,000,000 MPN 1990s-200 MPN OF FECAL COLIFORM >1,000,000 MPN

• 1989 Sagip Ilog ng Kabite; 1993 Ateneo Law Students1989 Sagip Ilog ng Kabite; 1993 Ateneo Law Students• 1998: UP Law 4 M GALLONS OF Raw sewage; every day 1998: UP Law 4 M GALLONS OF Raw sewage; every day • If cared for, it can provide protein for the entire metro manilaIf cared for, it can provide protein for the entire metro manila• Source of great recreation – for free (not a Mall)Source of great recreation – for free (not a Mall)• 90 % of what fishermen catch was pure garbage90 % of what fishermen catch was pure garbage• Lack of Political will!Lack of Political will!

Solution?

• Supplant lack of political will with the ---

• WILL, FORCE and POWER, of the Law

• Have the Plan Implemented

Almost 4 years

Jan 1999-Sept 2002

2006, now in the Supreme Court

Thank you, PSAF and OSG

Pro bono …

News articles

Oral Argument in the Supreme Court August 12, 2008

• News articles:

Why revolutionary? It creates an upheaval. Turn their world upside down and light a match under their butts

RAID IN BOHOL one ton = 6,000 sticks

Arifi ZakariaNOT the small fry, syndicate leaders

LARGEST IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

3 kms of detonating fuse

DEC. 16, 2004: Cavite

30,000 sticks, thank you IBP! Jovy

De La Victoria earlier told reporters De La Victoria earlier told reporters that he received information that that he received information that there was a One Million reward for there was a One Million reward for the person who could assassinate the person who could assassinate him and Oposa.him and Oposa.

KALA Mulqueeny

Sea-borne Operation• Blast fishermenBlast fishermen• Commercial fishing Commercial fishing

intrusionsintrusions

TRIAL AND CONVICTION – 2 weeksTRIAL AND CONVICTION – 2 weeksSENDING A MESSAGESENDING A MESSAGE

Law enforcement must be swift, painful and public

CREATIVE PENOLOGY

Adversaries to Allies Program

Our version of ‘Politics is addition’

10 this May and 10 this May and June 2009June 2009

Proposed marine Proposed marine protected areas protected areas

network mapnetwork map 36 SITES36 SITES

3 SITES3 SITES

16 SITES16 SITES 18 SITES18 SITES

Control Marine Resources Criminality

Curing the symptoms

Not the cause of

the disease

• Law is nothing more than policy distilled in legal form and language

• Policy is a mirror image of Paradigm – the mindset, the way we look at the world,

Law, Policy and Paradigm

• Environment is about Life and the Sources of Life of L.A.W.

• Change Economic Development Model

Take Home Messages

• Development based on Consumption (syn-waste and tuberculosis)

• Developed-More consumption

• Wrong!• Not Developed

Countries– Over-consuming

Countries– Low consuming

countries• Change words,

meanings, mindsets

• We cannot solve a problem …• Opposite development paradigm– • CPR Economics Conservation, Protection and

Restoration (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation of the Vital Organs of Life – Land-Soil, Forests – heart and lungs, blood

What can we do together

•Spratly Islands as ASEAN Heritage Park•Environmental Ombudsman

• ADB and Kala Mulqueeny• UNEP-Bakary Kante and Wanhua Yang• Republic of Indonesia Supreme Court Harifin

Tumpa and the Indonesian Friends – Bambang, Santosa,

• Everyone .. For your efforts – past and future for the protection of life, the sources of life.

• Favor – OCC and LCC

Thank you

SHARED A LITTLE OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE

• ANYTHING that is worth doing cannot be done in one lifetime

• Perhaps in the destiny of people of follow the path of their ideals toi realize that the path is endless, that in walking it we do not find the end of the path, rather we only find the joy of walking.