Youth for Blue Carbon

27/07/2025

30/01/2025

ICYW: Efforts to establish coastal greenbelts nationwide and adopt integrated coastal management as a national strategy to ensure the sustainability of our resources continue to move forward! The House of Representatives of the Philippines has passed its version of the bill, and now it's the Senate of the Philippines’s turn to do it!

Your voice matters. Let us call on our Senators to prioritize the National Coastal Greenbelt and Integrated Coastal Management Bills. 👉http://tinyurl.com/RMFFB2024

Manifesting a giant leap to protect our mangroves this 2025! 🍃🙏

15/01/2025

🌍 2024 broke records for extreme weather, with heatwaves, droughts, storms, and floods killing thousands and displacing millions. The evidence from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central shows that these events were intensified by human-induced climate change.

🔥 Climate change added 41 days of dangerous extreme heat globally, hitting small island and developing states hardest. Extreme heat impacts remain vastly underreported.

🌡️ While El Niño influenced many of the events early in the year, climate change played a larger role. As warming increases, its impact on extreme weather intensifies.

Get the full picture ➡️ https://ow.ly/rwH450UFAfI

19/12/2024

12/12/2024

🌿 A WIN FOR THE PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENT

The Senate has just passed 10 new Protected Areas bills on second reading, marking a crucial step toward safeguarding our country's natural treasures. Led by Sen. Cynthia A. Villar, these bills will strengthen the protection, management, and rehabilitation of vital ecosystems across different provinces.

Mangrove Matters PH is proud to be a part of this process, together with Oceana Philippines, Youth for Blue Carbon, and other environmental organizations. The fight still has a long way to go, but cheers to this milestone! 🇵🇭

17/10/2024

Heatwaves don’t only occur on land — they can happen in the ocean too. Abnormally high sea surface temperatures pose serious threats to marine life, fisheries, and coral reef ecosystems. To develop strategies against marine heatwaves, it is crucial to know when and where they happen.

The Marine Heatwave Tracker was developed by Cristan Dave Zablan, Rachel Francisco, and Dr. Charina Lyn Amedo-Repollo at the Physical Oceanography and Observation Laboratory. The online tool provides daily updates on marine heatwave events across the Philippine seas, using the latest sea surface temperatures from the Global OSTIA NRT dataset, made available through the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service. While additional user-friendly features will be added in the future, the tracker is already live and accessible to the public.

Explore the Marine Heatwave Tracker here: https://mhwtracker.science.upd.edu.ph/.

The tracker was developed under the following projects: “Mechanisms and Drivers of Marine Heatwave in the Philippines” led by Dr. Charina Lyn Amedo-Repollo and funded by UP Inhouse; “Marine Heatwaves in the Western Pacific: Impacts of Marine Heatwaves in Select West Philippine Sea Reefs” led by Dr. Maria Vanessa Baria-Rodriguez; and “REINVEST Project 1: Resource Inventory and Assessment of the West Philippine Sea”, led by Dr. Laura T. David, both funded by DOST PCAARRD.

Science Flash is an initiative of the UP Diliman College of Science that aims to summarize recent studies by our scientists. For interview requests and other media inquiries, please contact content(at)msi.upd.edu.ph

17/09/2024

FILM CATALOG ENTRY NO.1 🎬🔊👀

PAMALANDONG SA DANOW(Reflection in the Marsh)

Agusan Marsh, the largest freshwater wetland in the Philippines is home to various wild species and is considered a catch basin that helps regulate flooding in its surrounding areas. This is also the ancestral domain of the indigenous Agusanong Manobo people. But due to the impacts of climate change that turns water into land, and land into water, their primary livelihood of fishing is being affected and is slowly dwindling. Reinforced by land erosion from highlands due to human incursions like mining and deforestation, the water levels in Agusan Marsh is slowly depleting, putting it in a critical condition of disappearing.

Remy, Marites, and Ricky are three childhood friends and descendants of the first indigenous settlers of Agusan Marsh whose life mission is to protect and preserve their ancestral land whatever the odds.

Despite the challenges they face such as lack of funding and resources to find solutions and innovations to help preserve the marsh, they do whatever they can to coordinate with government agencies and private sectors to make small steps in achieving their goals.

Since Agusan Marsh is also a carbon sink that traps carbon from the atmosphere, if it disappears, it releases the carbon back, making it a dangerous carbon emitter that can contribute to the danger of an existing climate crisis.

PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER, EDITOR:
Breech Asher Harani

CAST:
Remy Miel Reyes
Marites Lara Babanto
Ricky Miel Reyes

Registration is now open, book your seat!
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25/07/2024

LOOK: GUARDIANS OF THE COAST, CELEBRATING MANGROVES 🍃

Join us in celebrating the International Day for the Conservation of Mangrove Ecosystems and support the passage of the Integrated Coastal Management Bill at the Senate of the Philippines.

When: Saturday, July 27, 2024, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Where: Hyundai Hall, National Museum of Natural History

This event showcases the crucial role of our mangrove forests as vital protectors of our coasts. Attendees can explore exhibits, engage in interactive games, watch educational videos, and participate in expert talks on mangrove ecosystems and conservation efforts.

Why are mangrove greenbelts crucial?
Mangrove greenbelts, composed of mangroves, beach forests, and other coastal vegetation, serve as natural barriers against storm surges, tsunamis, and rising sea levels. They protect coastal communities, infrastructure, lives and livelihood, and provide habitats for diverse marine and terrestrial species, sequester carbon, and regulate nutrient cycles.

Don't miss this chance to learn, play, and make a difference!

To RSVP, click here: https://forms.gle/tjn64LSFDYQqZUb77

Sea you there!

23/05/2024

More than half of all mangrove ecosystems at risk of collapse by 2050, first global assessment finds.

According to the assessment, nearly 20% (19.6%) of the assessed mangroves are at high risk, classed as either Endangered or Critically Endangered, reflecting these areas are at severe risk of collapse.

Mangroves are threatened by deforestation, development, pollution, and dam construction, but the risk to these ecosystems is increasing due to sea-level rise and the increased frequency of severe storms associated with climate change. Climate change threatens one third (33%) of the mangrove ecosystems assessed.

Read more, click here.

Gland, Switzerland, 22 May 2024 (IUCN) – More than half of the world’s mangrove ecosystems are at risk of collapse, according to the first global mangrove assessment for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Ecosystems.