SAN PABLO CITY – When “Yakap sa Lawa,” a movement initiated by local leaders during the early months of Year 2000 to help protect the city”s seven crater lakes, was formally launched during a program by the Sampaloc Lake attended by then Congressman Heherson Alvarez as keynote speaker, City Mayor Vicente B. Amante shared the views of environmentalists that the city’s seven crater lakes must be conserved and preserved, and wildlife call for help; the watershed that provide water to these bodies of water, Mounts San Cristobal and Banahaw east of the city proper must also be conserved.
Amante in briefing a group of humanity students from the Ateneo de Manila University that visited his office before the expiration of his third term in office, declared that the environ of Mounts San Cristobal and Banahaw must be protected since these are “power mountains” revered by believers that include so many foreigners.
Amante added that these mountains are part of the country’s national heritage, home for many adherents of various folk religion, that even the anthropologists of Ateneo de Manila University are now trying to document and conserved.
Plants, animals, top soils, water and forest form an interlocking chain of life. In nature, no living things is able to survive without the help of other living things. Trees and plants would not exist if it were not for the distribution of their seeds by birds. Fruits and flowers would become extinct without bees and butterflies, to carry pollens from bloom to another. Nature has provided a working balance to whereby each of the elements and creatures plays a role. Disruption of this balance will cause problem to man in the area, Amante reminded the Ateneo students.
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