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No Welcome Mat in the Philipines
March 13, 2012 -- Unwelcome Guests” is not about the midnight appointees Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo picked before scurrying from Malacañang—onto hospital jail for election sabotage raps.
Count me out, snapped the former president’s manicurist. Anita Carpon had been dangled a Pag-IBIG Fund midnight appointment. She nixed a two-year job with a P100,000 monthly paycheck.
Deal me in, said GMA’s former chief-of-staff. She named Renato Corona Supreme Court Chief Justice just before the clock struck midnight. Today, Corona battles impeachment.
“Unwelcome Guests” is in fact a scientific paper on forest invasive species. In Kuming, China, Filipino foresters presented this study to an Asia-Pacific conference, organized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
“Man can cram many exotic crops in one place,” wrote N.T. Baguinon, M.O. Quimado and G.J. Francisco of UP Los Baños, Forest Management Bureau and Department of Environment. But plantations are not more diverse than natural forest ecosystems. They pose little-recognized threats. Read the full story to get the details.
"Planting exotics violates the international convention on biodiversity,” notes the Soil and Water Conservation Foundation. “What is the consequence when students asked to plant trees under the Greening Program, are only given exotic seedlings by DENR? Is it because the DENR cannot or will not spend to gather native tree seedlings?"
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The Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers web site is part of the ANS Task Force public
awareness campaign and is sponsored by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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