bird sanctuary

the philippine reclamation authority is proposing to have 635 hectares place near roxas blvd. be converted to a private, commercial and tourism area. sounds awesome? not until you hear that this is situated right beside a protective wetland that caters  a lot of different birds – migratory birds from china, endemic philippine duck and thousands of waterbirds. imagine that? check this out. i don’t want to enumerate everything that you can see here because this is not what i want to stress out.

just recently, noli de castro reported how this sanctuary is threatened. it broke my heart when i heard about the issue. hearing of how the local government stands on this issue, mayor bernabe said “…irerelocate natin yung sanctuary…”. yes, RELOCATE. i think he has a hidden talent of talking with the birds to tell them that they should be relocated. in my own words, he is boplaks. sover (super and over) boplaks. he added that they need this project so as to generate jobs and provide housing to the poor. gggrrr… i am not anti-poor but i am against politicians who do not have political will. these politicians – like mayor bernabe – is a traditional politician (trapo) who keeps on using the poor in their platform every election. so pathetic.

again, i wanted to stress out that i am not against the poor. i just know that there are other alternatives in relocating them, in generating jobs, etc. if i am the mayor, i’ll convert this bird sanctuary to a beautiful and clean place. this is one place that the whole city that could be proud of. remove the squatters who lives in the nearby place. i am not anti-poor, i am pro-nature. there are things that we really need to compromise...


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