OdettePH smashed delicate island bird sanctuary in Cebu
BEFORE AND AFTER: Olango Island off Mactan in Cebu was model for how the needs of both wildlife and humans could be met on a small island. That delicate balance was brutally upended by Typhoon Odette.
Well-known to birders and ornithologists the world over, Olango had evolved perhaps even before human habitation as a common “fuel stop” for birds flying south every year from Siberia and other northern climes. Some migratory species even learned to end their southern journeys in Olango’s food-rich mud flats.
In 1992, Olango garnered the distinction of becoming one of the pioneering Protected Areas in the Philippines under the then-new law creating the National Integrated Protected Areas System, or NIPAS. Olango beeped into my consciousness again when my friend Arne Jensen, the respected ornithologist and longtime Philippine resident, posted a public plea addressed to me shortly before Christmas:
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