NTF-WPS, nag-iipon ng mga ebidensiya para sa case build-up sa environmental destruction and...
NTF-WPS, nag-iipon ng mga ebidensiya para sa case build-up sa environmental destruction and degradation sa Pag-asa clays 1, 2, at 3 sa WPS
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00:00The government will file a case against China
00:03because of environmental destruction and degradation
00:06in front of the discovered dead corals
00:10that were found in Asa Island.
00:12Here is the report.
00:16The National Task Force on the West Philippine Sea
00:19is now collecting evidence against China's environmental destruction
00:24and degradation in the West Philippine Sea.
00:27This includes the study and research of the University of the Philippines in Asa Island.
00:33According to the Philippine Coast Guard,
00:35there is a scientific basis for the destruction of marine life
00:38inside the Philippine Economic Zone.
00:41A group of scientists discovered
00:43the discovered dead corals in Asa Island
00:47that are slowly dying from the naturally made corals in the area.
00:51Many of the corals are now small.
00:53Many of the large corals are now dead.
00:57And there's not a lot of live corals per unit area.
01:00So, there's not a lot of fish anymore.
01:03And where you find fish,
01:05you'll see later,
01:06most of them are now small fish.
01:08It's also not normal
01:10that there are so many corals
01:13that there seems to be a reclamation there.
01:15Typical island that's naturally formed in the Philippines,
01:18the slope is usually gentle
01:19because the wave will try to erode the island itself over time.
01:24They also discovered
01:26that there are large corals
01:27on top of the buried corals
01:29that are impossible to happen
01:31except if it's intentionally put there.
01:34So, how did they get there in the middle?
01:36They didn't just go there.
01:37No one was scattered like that.
01:38This is their discovery
01:40when they conducted a survey
01:42of the rich seas in the area this March.
01:44The corals in Asa Island shouldn't be destroyed
01:47because it's far from the mainland
01:50and there's almost no fish there.
01:52That's why their conclusion is
01:55the Pag-asa Coral Reefs, the K,
01:57the Pag-asa Island itself,
01:59have coral reefs that are now experiencing
02:01either a decline or degradation.
02:03Overfishing and the habitat itself
02:06is not in a good condition.
02:07Because the corals were intentionally put there,
02:11Commodore J. Tariella said,
02:13There's no other country that we can pinpoint.
02:17It's only the People's Republic of China.
02:18Tariella has an explanation here.
02:20First,
02:21who has access to Cases 1, 2, 3, and 4?
02:25In Cases 1, 2, 3, and 4,
02:28in Pag-asa, it's close.
02:30Only two countries are close to this case.
02:33First, the Philippines.
02:35Second, the People's Republic of China
02:37because it's close to the Suebi Reef.
02:39Second,
02:40only China can build a man-made island.
02:44We don't have the experience
02:45of destroying corals
02:49to build a small-scale reclamation
02:51to expand these areas.
02:54So, it is only the People's Republic of China
02:56who has a professional record
03:00of doing this in the South China Sea.
03:02That's why the recommendation
03:04of the University of the Philippines' professor,
03:06Jonathan Anticamara.
03:08I think we need to prioritize
03:10monitoring, management,
03:12and rehabilitation of many of these reefs.
03:14So, these are the important activities
03:16that the Philippines should lead.
03:18According to Tariella,
03:19they will present Dr. Anticamara's findings
03:23to the National Task Force of the West Philippine Sea
03:26and submit them to the Department of Justice.
03:29Alan Francisco for Pamansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.