What is the actual status of the philippines environment?

Answer 1

Despite of what Patrick4 writes, Philippines has got a long way to go to have a decent environment. There are thousands of beautiful islands, but at least here in Luzon (where Manila is), it seems like a land of concrete, shacks, polution and garbage. The nice thing is that there is so much greenery. Grass, weeds all mixed with wild vegetables grow everywhere at a rate of a foot (30 cm) in two weeks. Now for the bad side...
1. During dry season, they burn off the grass and fields - very few mowers.
2. Roads are an insult with usually open sewers on the side, and only one decent highway from north to south.
3. Garbage disposal is only partly effective with about half being burned in back yards, or winding up in the rivers.
4. If that's not enough air polution, thousands of smoky busses, trucks, underpowered diesel jeepneys with people hanging on outside, along with tricycles (125 cc motorcycle with a sidecar) with 5 people and several bags of rice speeding down the road doing 40kph at night without taillights... or a carabao (water buffalo) pulling a wagon at the same time without lights or even a reflector... but I digress. The point is that the roads are choked with dangerous slow traffic, which when motorized, is 60% low grade (high sulfur) diesel. no one seems to care about preventive car maintenance and so driving through Manila (no other way to go) makes ones eyes sting due to air polution.
'Nuff said. I'm lucky to live on top of a mountain where it's cooler and the polution is lesser.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It relies upon on each and every place. city factors of course are of direction polluted and that's unhappy to assert that Baguio, being between the cities that had the final air interior the previous, has long gone too polluted and the city government can't discover answer to this difficulty. Manila remains polluted yet while in comparison with Baguio, i think of Baguio has the extra severe air because of the fact this is a place surrounded by way of mountains that hence save the smog circulating. The air in distinctive rural factors interior the Philippines remains maintained even nonetheless. Mountains and planes have become progressed interior the incorrect way as you may see many subdivisions right here and there and particularly of seeing a retrreat, you may discover residences. most of the timber have been logged, mountains have been mined, rivers have been polluted and secure rivers are difficulty to the development of dams. regrettably, most of the mountains interior the southern and northern factors of the Philippines have sunk through overmining. most of the seas have become so polluted too as they have been grew to become into advertisement web sites. Pagudpud, being the previous of Boracay, would be the subsequent advertisement spot interior the destiny because of the fact the governmnet already recognizes the placement being visited by way of a huge style of folk. The oil spill in Guimaras isn't solved yet by way of and massive, this tropical u . s . a ., which i think of, looks to have been blessed by way of attractiveness is in risk with its flora and fauna endangered....

Answer 4

Some parts of the Philippines are the best in the world like Palawan. Very clean and green. A lot of places are worse though.