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    The Philippines has a prone to natural disasters like typhoons, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire. It also suffers from major human-caused environmental degradation such as deforestation, water pollution, and soil degradation aggravated by high population growth. Water pollution is a major issue, with 58% of groundwater contaminated from untreated domestic and industrial waste. Deforestation has reduced forest cover from 70% in the early 20th century to just 20% today due to short-sighted logging policies. The government has implemented a Sustainable Development Strategy to tackle these environmental issues through initiatives like population control, biodiversity conservation, and

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    The Philippines has a prone to natural disasters like typhoons, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire. It also suffers from major human-caused environmental degradation such as deforestation, water pollution, and soil degradation aggravated by high population growth. Water pollution is a major issue, with 58% of groundwater contaminated from untreated domestic and industrial waste. Deforestation has reduced forest cover from 70% in the early 20th century to just 20% today due to short-sighted logging policies. The government has implemented a Sustainable Development Strategy to tackle these environmental issues through initiatives like population control, biodiversity conservation, and

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    The Philippines has a prone to natural disasters like typhoons, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire. It also suffers from major human-caused environmental degradation such as deforestation, water pollution, and soil degradation aggravated by high population growth. Water pollution is a major issue, with 58% of groundwater contaminated from untreated domestic and industrial waste. Deforestation has reduced forest cover from 70% in the early 20th century to just 20% today due to short-sighted logging policies. The government has implemented a Sustainable Development Strategy to tackle these environmental issues through initiatives like population control, biodiversity conservation, and

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    Environment of the Philippines

    The Philippines is prone to natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods, landslides, volcanic
    eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis, lying as it does astride the typhoon belt, in the active
    volcanic region known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, and in the geologically unstable region
    between the Pacific and Eurasian tectonic plates.
    The Philippines also suffers major human-caused environmental degradation aggravated by a
    high annual population growth rate, including loss of agricultural lands, deforestation, soil, air
    and water pollution, improper disposal of solid and toxic wastes, loss of coral reefs,
    mismanagement and abuse of coastal resources, and overfishing.

    Environmental issues
    Water pollution
    Although water resources become scarce in some regions and seasons, the Philippines as a
    whole has more than enough surface and groundwater. However, the neglect of a coherent
    environmental policy led to the actual situation, in which 58% of the groundwater is
    contaminated. The main source of pollution is untreated domestic and industrial
    wastewater. Only one third of Philippine river systems are considered suitable for public water
    supply.
    It is estimated that in 2025, water availability will be marginal in most major cities and in 8 of
    the 19 major river basins. Besides severe health concerns, water pollution also leads to
    problems in the fishing and tourism industries. The national government recognized the
    problem and since 2004 has sought to introduce sustainable water resources development
    management.
    Only 5% of the total population is connected to a sewer network. The vast majority uses flush
    toilets connected to septic tanks. Since sludge treatment and disposal facilities are rare, most

    effluents are discharged without treatment. According to the Asian Development Bank,
    the Pasig River is one of the world's most polluted rivers. In March 2008, Manila
    Water announced that a wastewater treatment plant will be constructed in Taguig. The first
    Philippine constructed wetland serving about 700 households was completed in 2006 in a periurban area of Bayawan City which has been used to resettle families that lived along the coast
    in informal settlements and had no access to safe water supply and sanitation facilities.

    Deforestation
    Over the course of the 20th century the forest cover of the Philippines dropped from 70 percent
    down to 20 percent.
    In total, 46 species are endangered, and 4 were already eradicated completely. 3.2 percent of
    total rainforest has been left.
    Based on an analysis of land use pattern maps and a road map an estimated 9.8 million ha of
    forests were lost in the Philippines from 1934 to 1988.
    According to scholar Jessica Mathews, short-sighted policies by the Filipino government have
    contributed to the high rate of deforestation:
    The government regularly granted logging concessions of less than ten years. Since it takes 30
    35 years for a second-growth forest to mature, loggers had no incentive to replant.
    Compounding the error, flat royalties encouraged the loggers to remove only the most valuable
    species. A horrendous 40 percent of the harvestable lumber never left the forests but, having
    been damaged in the logging, rotted or was burned in place. The unsurprising result of these and

    related policies is that out of 17 million hectares of closed forests that flourished early in the
    century only 1.2 million remain today.[11]
    Illegal logging occurs in the Philippines and intensifies flood damage in some areas.

    Government
    policy
    Sustainable Development
    Recognizing the need to tackle the environment issues as
    well as the need to sustain development and growth, the Philippines
    came up with
    the

    Sustainable Development Strategy. The nation for the Sustainable Development Strategy
    includes assimilating environmental considerations in administration, apposite pricing of natural
    resources, conservation of biodiversity, rehabilitation of ecosystems, control of population
    growth and human resources development, inducing growth in rural areas, promotion of
    environmental education, strengthening citizens participation, and promoting small to medium
    sized enterprises and sustainable agricultural and forestry practices. One of the initiatives signed
    in part of the strategy was the 1992 Earth Summit.
    Upon signing the 1992 Earth Summit, the government of Philippines has been constantly
    looking into many different initiatives to improve the environmental aspects of the country.

    Environmental
    Currently,

    protection
    the

    Philippines' Department of Environment and Natural Resources has been busy tracking down
    illegal loggers and been spearheading projects to preserve the quality of many remaining rivers
    that are not yet polluted.

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