With the country’s rich natural resources and biological diversity, economic growth is expected. The Philippines is one of the 17 megadiverse countries in the world.
It is rich in land and water, two very important economic resources, which support agriculture and fisheries; richly endowed with minerals and other natural sources with huge potential for renewable energy.
The country’s beautiful beaches, a good number of soaring mountains and vast forests with stunning landscapes, breath-taking rivers and waterfalls are ideal for ecotourism and natural resource-based economy, including the development of a plant-based pharmaceutical industry
With the rapid rate of biodiversity loss, the need to protect and conserve the country’s rich biodiversity to step away from the brink of natural-resources depletion cannot be overemphasized.
Aside from facing an uphill climb in terms of agricultural and fisheries production, the Philippines is also suffering from natural-resources depletion and is struggling to arrest the rapid rate of biodiversity loss.
Forest degradation caused by destructive human activities, including agriculture, mining, logging, timber poaching and wildlife trafficking, remains a big challenge.
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