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CALOOCAN CITY, May 26 (PIA) — In celebration of the Month of the Ocean this May and the upcoming World Environment Day this June 5th, young Filipino environmental advocates will gather virtually to promote meaningful youth engagement in environmental conservation, protection, and restoration.
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enablePagination: false A photo of Manobo leader Marites Babanto at the Agusan Marsh. Photo by GAB MEJIA
Gab Mejia considers himself a conservation photographer. Mejia, who was recently included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for The Arts in Asia, got his first camera at 18. Since then, he has spent most of his waking hours taking pictures outdoors striking photos that would captivate anyone looking through his Instagram profile: mountainscapes in purple, blue and marigold, white flowers blooming along the edge of a marsh, and the red-orange tarp where Kali, the last captive bred tamaraw, lay after her passing. Though he says, “I don’t want these stories to just be on an Instagram feed. but something that can reach and educate others about the importance of these places that we document.”
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The Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous people from Peruvian rainforest in the Amazon use healing plants as a way to connect with nature. Their work with traditional plant-based medicine is under threat amid the coronavirus pandemic. I accompanied the Shipibo-Konibo people in their quest to survive this violent disease.I saw them take refuge in their origin, in their forest. And I felt myself in refuge with them, said photographer Florence Goupil.Photograph by Florence Goupil
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In the island forests of the western Pacific, there’s an otherworldly animal known as the Philippine tarsier.
With bat ears, suction cup–like fingers, and giant golden eyes, the creatures would be easy to mistake for extras on a sci-fi movie set. But in fact, tarsiers are primates and distant relatives of humans.
“They really look like little aliens jumping from tree to tree,” says Gab Mejia, a National Geographic Explorer and photographer based in the Philippines.
The Philippines’ 7,600-plus islands are the cradle for a mind-boggling number of diverse species. According to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 5 percent of the world’s plant species live in the Philippines. And nearly half of the creatures found on these islands exist nowhere else.