Power firm to rehabilitate Boracay wetland

Macapagal, Jed

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January 28, 2019

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Macapagal, Jed

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Lopez-led power generation firm Energy Development Corp. (EDC) is investing P10 million it's adopted a wetland in Boracay Island to turn it into an eco-tourism park. The adopted 7.79- hectare Wetland No. 2 located here is one of the nine wetlands in the island identified by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) where environmental rehabilitation is needed as it was originally a brackish water swamp that has been turned into a construction dump over the years. EDC is developing it to become the Boracay Wetland, Conservation Park (BWCP) as an arboretum for threatened native tree species under the BINHI reforestation and greening initiative.

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Macapagal, J. (2019, January 28). Power firm to rehabilitate Boracay wetland. Malaya Business Insight, p. A2.