Samar

Calbiga, Samar to offer eco-tourism options at Philippine eco-fair

by CITEM on Aug 17, 2010

"Samar Island is not God's gift, but His bequest. Not just to feed us, but for us to feed. Not with our waste, but with our care."

So goes the preamble to the Samar Island Council on Climate Change, a document that reflects the Samareños' drive to serve as stewards to the abundant expanse of resources that make up the Eastern Visayan province of Samar.

As the third largest island in the Philippines, Samar is one of the top 200 eco-regions of the world declared by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a leading global organization for wildlife conservation, and is such full of unexplored vistas of sea and terrain. Because it is mountainous, majority of Samar's population and agricultural lands are found along the coast and downstream of river systems - putting it at risk of rising sea levels attributable to climate change.

This vulnerability, as well as knowing that future progress inextricably lies on how they handle their environment now,...Read More >>