Activity 1 Biodiversity.

Zhun Gabriel A.
Pelicano BSN 1 – B STS
ACTIVITY NO. 1 GENERATION OF IDEAS

1. Are you familiar with the Padulong Festival? Share your experience as an audience or part of a
contingent team.
Padulong Festival is the province’s way to pay homage to its Patroness, the Blessed
Virgin Mary. The capital city of the province, pronounced as “bo-rong-gan”, was derived from
the Waray-waray word “borong” which means “fog. The festival commemorates the day they
received the image. It depicts a mythical presentation on how the image of the Blessed Virgin
Mary was inexplicably transported to Borongan City all the way from Portugal. The festival also
illustrates the legend of a mysterious “Lady in White” who allegedly visits the Hamorawan
Spring regularly. I’ve never been a part of Padulong Festival, but all I know is that the audacity
of love that it creates is far more than other communities that venerates Mary as their patroness.
Boronganon truly love and honor Mary and the Venerates Mary, and as a theist I cannot deny
that Mary is the mother of God in which she also shares the act as an mediator between human
and the divine.
2. What is Biodiversity? What are the forms of life portrayed by the dancers during the parade
and re-enactment of the transportation of the Blessed Virgin Mary from Portugal to Borongan
City, Eastern Samar?
Biodiversity is a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth. It can be
used more specifically to refer to all of the species in one region or ecosystem. Biodiversity
refers to every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans. There are many
portrayed things in the parade this includes the all the animals and plants that are found within
the coastal area. Also it may include some contingent groups that portrays the extravagant
harvest that Borongan farmers reap from their respective agricultural source. And this happens to
express the fruitfulness of the culture and the biodiversity that is within Borongan.
3. What is the importance of Biodiversity in your community?
Biodiversity which may include enormous variety of life on earth. Boosts ecosystem
productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an importance role to play. A
healthy biodiversity offers a number of natural services towards us. We see biodiversity every
day, but it’s more than bugs and animals and trees. It’s about how everything is connected. If we
lose one piece of biodiversity, the rest is affected. We are all connected into it and if one fails to
mend its role the others are affected. We can’t exist without so we must take good care of it.
4. What are the certain causes of Biodiversity losses in your community?
We know that we constantly destroy our biodiversity may it be directly or indirectly, destruction
is still a form of destruction. The main cause of the loss of biodiversity can be attributed to the influence
of human beings on the world’s ecosystem, In fact human beings have deeply altered the environment,
and have modified the territory, exploiting the species directly, for example by fishing and hunting,
changing the biogeochemical cycles and transferring species from one area to another of the Planet. The
threats to biodiversity can be summarized in the following main points:
Alteration and loss of the habitats: the transformation of the natural areas determines not only
the loss of the vegetable species, but also a decrease in the animal species associated to them.
Introduction of exotic species and genetically modified organisms: species originating from a
particular area, introduced into new natural environments can lead to different forms of
imbalance in the ecological equilibrium. Refer to, “Introduction of exotic species and genetically
modified organisms”.
Pollution: human activity influences the natural environment producing negative, direct or
indirect, effects that alter the flow of energy, the chemical and physical constitution of the
environment and abundance of the species;
Climate change: for example, heating of the Earth’s surface affects biodiversity because it
endangers all the species that adapted to the cold due to the latitude (the Polar species) or the
altitude (mountain species).
Overexploitation of resources: when the activities connected with capturing and harvesting
(hunting, fishing, farming) a renewable natural resource in a particular area is excessively
intense, the resource itself may become exhausted, as for example, is the case of sardines,
herrings, cod, tuna and many other species that man captures without leaving enough time for the
organisms to reproduce.
5. How can you help preserve the Biodiversity in your community?
Surely, it is inevitable from getting destroyed due to people who harass their way towards
nature without proper thinking that nature will be destroyed because of their irresponsible
treatment to it. But preservation can start within the governments due support towards nature,
second we people should also think in the best way as possible to cooperate in enhancing the
laws towards our nature. Third, climate change is irreversible but we cannot stop it but we can
only slow its phase, by doing what we are thought to do take care and restore our surroundings as
possible, may it be in a form of reforestation or any possible ways in which we can preserve
nature.

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ACTIVITY NO. 1 GENERATION OF IDEAS

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