{"id":52070,"date":"2015-06-17T17:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T09:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52070"},"modified":"2015-06-17T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T09:56:09","slug":"boracay-folk-urges-govt-to-save-puka-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/17\/boracay-folk-urges-govt-to-save-puka-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Boracay folk urges gov&#8217;t to save Puka Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52074\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Puka_Beach_Boracay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52074\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Puka_Beach_Boracay-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Puka_Beach_Boracay-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Puka_Beach_Boracay.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Some 350 people on Monday gathered in front of Willy&#8217;s Rock in Barangay Balabag to urge the government to save the island&#8217;s remaining undeveloped area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gathered and lit candles to put a face on our online petition,\u201d said Julia Lervik, president of the Friends of the Flying Foxes (FFF), as quoted in a report by Nestor Burgos for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>Puka Beach, considered by many as the last gem of Boracay is popular for tourists seeking for the beauty of &#8220;virgin&#8221; Boracay, \u00a0with only the white powdery sand and crystal clear waters.<\/p>\n<p>It is located at the northern tip of the 1,032-hectare Boracay and is surrounded by a forest which serves as home from several bat species identified by conservationist.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the species including the\u00a0golden-crowned flying fox which is endemic to the Philippines, has been considered to be among the list of endangered animals in the island.<\/p>\n<p>Just recently, several groups, residents and tourists have launched an online petition to stop the commercial development of the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Through a petition made through Change.org, the petitioners said that the developers are\u00a0\u201cagain pushing to revoke the forest classification of the area and make it into commercial land for development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same petition, the concerned residents also said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey cannot take away all our wildlife on this island for profit. If you don\u2019t speak up, the last forest will disappear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, the petition (https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/and-reaching-out-to-the-denr-local-and-national-goverment-of-boracay-island-save-boracay-s-last-remaining-wildlife-forest-and-puka-shell-beach#petition-letter) has generated 10,343 signatories since it was initiated in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Some 350 people on Monday gathered in front of Willy&#8217;s Rock in Barangay Balabag to urge the government &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":52074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}