SFC students, teachers attend Environmental Symposium by rmcaldez

Almost 300 students, teachers and school employees of Saint Ferdinand College (SFC) in Ilagan attended a 1-day Symposium on Environmental Awareness held at the St. Ferdinand College Gymnasium as part of the Ocean Month Celebration with this year’s theme: “Protecting our Seas: Saving our Lives, Saving our Future”.
In order to spread the message to the public particularly the youth who could help in conserving, protecting and sustainably managing the ocean resources, a symposium was conducted to increase the students’ appreciation of the importance of the ocean and to encourage them to contribute to on-going efforts as well as initiate action.
Lecturers from the Regional and PENRO Isabela offices discussed their topics with the aid of powerpoint presentation. Open forum was moderated every after topic to provide an understanding of the diverse and broad aspects within contemporary global issues and to enable students to think globally. This knowledge based on a particular specialty is imperative to help students respond to global issues.
PENRO Forestry Specialist Arnold D. Frogoso tackled the issue on Climate Change while Forester Enrique Pasion discussed the topic on Managing Coastal Ecosystem. Forester Dionisio Deundo lectured on the Unique Biodiversity of the Philippines and Ms. Jamelita Flores of the Regional Office explained the Philippine Marine Ecosystem.
Reflecting about environmental issues, student/teacher participants from SFC learned about global issues particularly on environment.
The symposium for the ocean month celebration was conducted highlighting the conservation, protection and sustainable management of the Philippine Coastal and Ocean resources as integrated in the different lectures to provide students with tools to develop skills needed for succeeding in the program, how to implement them, exploring ways to apply immediate action especially with regard to feasible solution in which everyone can participate.
May has been declared as “Ocean Month” in the Philippines through Presidential Proclamation No. 57 by former President Fidel V. Ramos. The Proclamation states that all relevant national agencies, local government units and other government agencies spearhead the observance