There are only a few areas in Metro Manila that have mangroves left. Would you destroy them?

By protecting one of Metro Manila’s last mangrove forests, we help protect what little is left of mangroves along the 200 km stretch of the Manila Bay coastline.

Of the 90,000 or so hectares of mangroves that once existed in Manila Bay from the 1900s, less than 1% is left.

Mangroves are nurseries for fish – an important food source, they help reduce existing flooding issues, filter pollutants and metals, and are home to birds, shellfish, crabs, and more.

Show your love of what is left by reminding everyone the importance of these mangroves. The Las Piñas-Parañaque Wetland Park or LPPWP is already enshrined in law as a Protected Area. So protect it… or else all we will have left are buildings.

Sources:

• RN Rollon, et al 2024 – The Need for a Clear Rehabilitation Roadmap for Manila Bay Coastal Ecosystems: A Microcosm of Climate Emergency in the Philippine Context.
• DENR 2013. Sustaining our Coasts: The Ridge-to-Reef Approach. A Compilation of Technical and Policy Papers. Mangrove Management.
• RMB Gamido, DENR-NCR et al 2015 – State of the Mangroves in the National Captial Region. State of the Mangrove Summit 2015.