“You're not a wave you’re part of the ocean,” says Mitch Albom. Who doesn’t love the ocean? Each of us enjoys the breeze from the blue crystal waters and the cool, soft sands on our feet. Either white or blackish sand, pebbles in the island, fire sunsets over a blue horizon – and most of all, the stunning wildlife beneath the waters. The ocean is purely a different world all its own. Unfortunately, it is slowly dying. Black wastewater coming from factories, garbage the tourists left behind, illegal fishing, coral poaching and the worst, plastic pollution, are factors that contribute to the slow demise of the world’s oceans.

DENR: Protect ocean for the future. (2020, May 14). Panay News, pp. 9, 11.