Ekta-ektaryang bahura sa loob ng WPS, napinsala kasunod ng umano'y dredging, landfill, at pag...
Ekta-ektaryang bahura sa loob ng WPS, napinsala kasunod ng umano'y dredging, landfill, at pag-harvest ng giant clam ng China
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00:00 "Hectares of waste was dumped into the West Philippine Sea,
00:04 followed by dredging, landfill and the harvest of giant clam from China.
00:08 That is Joshua Garcia's story."
00:10 The Center for Strategic and International Studies or CSIS
00:16 distributed the dumped waste in the West Philippine Sea
00:18 after they conducted their research using commercial satellite imagery
00:22 under their Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative or AMTI.
00:27 According to their data, currently, more than 20,000 acres
00:31 of waste was dumped into the West Philippine Sea,
00:34 as well as the giant clam harvesting that China is doing in the ocean.
00:38 Corals and fish in the Rosal Reef are affected
00:42 due to the residual sediment that was left by the eruption.
00:45 According to Gregory Pauling, director of the CSIS Southeast Asia Program and the AMTI,
00:51 there is no effect if the Chinese militia is physically stopped
00:54 from their activities in the West Philippine Sea.
00:57 Just like dredging and giant clam harvesting.
01:00 "The only way to stop this is to convince Beijing to stop it.
01:04 Any effort to physically prevent this is going to be hopeless.
01:09 They've got a lot more boats than everybody else combined
01:12 and it's a lot of ocean to try to cover."
01:14 Pauling added,
01:15 another way they saw is that countries, particularly in Southeast Asia,
01:20 are united in spreading the evidence that China's activities
01:24 are damaging marine life in the West Philippine Sea.
01:27 "We need to see an international coalition, starting in Southeast Asia,
01:33 led by the claimants, to better survey this damage, account for it,
01:40 hopefully negotiate some joint marine scientific research and fisheries management regimes
01:43 among the Southeast Asian claimants,
01:46 invite China to join, China will probably say no,
01:48 but then that further damages China's credibility
01:51 because why wouldn't China want to save coral reefs?"
01:53 The CSIS did not comment on the so-called cyanide fishing
01:58 of Chinese fishermen in Bajo de Bacinlooc.
02:00 But it is worth noting that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
02:05 released an ultimatum, ready to raise a complaint against the Philippines
02:07 when it came to legal grounds,
02:09 including the BFAR report that cyanide was used by Chinese fishermen
02:13 in Scarborough Shoal.
02:15 The reason was so that Filipinos would not go fishing there.
02:18 "I do know that there are cases of cyanide fishing before,
02:21 even here in the Philippines.
02:23 But I think the reason that it has become more alarming
02:27 is that it has become more prevalent.
02:30 That's why we are remembering this."
02:32 "If we feel that there is enough ground to do so, we will."
02:36 Josh Garcia for Pambansang TV in Bago, Philippines.