Experts from different institutions come together to survey the resources in the West Philippine Sea in the hope of providing a 'framework or method to assess the damage' in the area
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“We want to hopefully provide a framework or method to assess the damage, considering the value of the resources there,” marine scientist Wilfred Santiañez told Rappler in an interview. “The problem is the expanse and depth of the West Philippine Sea. We don’t actually know the resources in there,” Santiañez said.the sentiment in a forum organized by the UP MSI. Anticamara recently led a team in Pag-asa Island to check the status of cays where corals have been damaged.
Santiañez said the teams deployed in these expeditions are composed of 15 to 17 people and another 10 for ship crew. IMLOS director Jay Batongbacal said they have so far reviewed domestic and international legal frameworks concerned in resource valuation and compensation. Now they are looking at how these could be applied in the Philippines.
“It’s useful for us to interface with them so we’ll find out how to translate science into policy,” Batongbacal shared.
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