'Is it time to declare [National Hero] Jose Rizal as the ‘Father of Philippine Biodiversity?’” The question was a proposition made by broadcast journalist Howie Severino during his talk at the Asean Biodiversity Heroes Forum in Malate, Manila, last August 12. An award-winning broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, Severino, who…
The photos are screengrab from ACB Facebook Live Stream of the slides of broadcast journalist Howie Severino during his talk about National Hero Jose Rizal and biodiversity.“Is it time to declare [National Hero] Jose Rizal as the ‘Father of Philippine Biodiversity?’”
Associating biodiversity with Rizal, he said young storytellers can make biodiversity a more interesting topic for their respective audiences, by associating it with history, heritage, and heroism. The interactive learning forum gathered development communication students from select state universities in Luzon and Mindanao and several storytellers from Asean neighbors with some ACB’s Asean Biodiversity Heroes to learn about biodiversity advocacy, experiences, challenges, frustrations, perseverance and the success that made the heroes in biodiversity protection and conservation.
He also learned from the locals, while sharing his own knowledge, about the medicinal value of native trees and plants found around the forest of Dapitan. By sending to foreign botanists the specimens that he preserved, he, in turn, received books and continued his education. An advocate of biodiversity protection and conservation, Legarda vowed to work with concerned institutions in Germany, and through a loan, to have the specimens brought to the Philippines and be showcased at the National Museum of Natural History, in recognition of Rizal’s work.
More importantly, he said Rizal articulated in the way he lived and not just what he wrote his vision for the Filipino—enlightened, progressive, civic-minded, a believer in freedom and human rights, a lover of nature—“which I think we can take to heart and emulate until today,” Severino said.
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