CEBU, Philippines - As part of their corporate social responsibility, an environment group, mostly composed of resort and corporate heads, has pledged to make more coastal cleanups and marine resources preservation for this year.
Antonio Aboitiz, president of Ocean Care Advocates, Inc. (OCAI), during the organization’s annual meeting the other day at the Plantation Bay Resort and Spa, said that his group has lined up several coastal cleanups for this year, and surveys of marine protected areas (MPA) as part of its aim to do something for Cebu’s coastal environment.
OCAI, which was established in 2008, is composed of 17 corporate members - mostly resorts and hotels along the Lapu-Lapu City coastlines, 10 dive shops, and four individual members.
Aboitiz, in an interview with the media, said that apart from cleanups, Ocean will again survey the established MPAs in Lapu-Lapu City and Cordova town, where most of the resorts are located.
“We will stick our noses into the management (of MPAs) and see where we can help, like put up marine buoys and how to assist in the protection of these MPAs,” he said.
Aboitiz however believes that they can only do very little to help reverse the effects of climate change. – Liv G. Campo (FREEMAN NEWS)