September 23, 2019

THE DAILY
BULLETIN
LOCSIN: ICELAND RESOLUTION A ‘NOTHING, DEAD RESOLUTION’

BY: CATHRINE GONZALES

REPORTER

Locsin acknowledged that 18 of the 47

member states of the UNHRC voted in
favor of the draft resolution filed by
Iceland, but also noted that 14 voted no
and 15 other states abstained.

“[The ‘yes’ votes] did win over the ‘no,’

COUNTRIES BACKING ICELAND RESOLUTION NEVER
but if you add the abstention, it was not GAVE PH ANYTHING WORTHWHILE - LOCSIN
carried, and under some parliamentary
rules, that does not carry. The point is they
BY: NEIL ARWIN MERCADO Locsin was responding to former
cannot do anything about it,” he added. REPORTER Commission on Election (Comelec)
Locsin also reiterated that he does not commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal who
favor foreign observers looking into the
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro argued: “If ‘we don’t need money’ from
country’s human rights situation,
Locsin Jr. on Sunday defended the countries, it means we don’t need money
alleged order to refuse grants and aid from everyone. Not just some. Because if
including the drug war killings, since
from other countries who voted to we still take out loans and ODAs (official
according to him, they have already
approve a United Nations Human Rights development assistance) from some but
judged government authorities in the
Philippines as human rights violators,
Council (UNHRC) resolution calling for reject from others, well…”
probe on the Philippines’ drug war
particularly in the drug war.
killings. The Inquirer earlier reported that a
“Experience showed the same countries confidential memorandum dated August
“I already said those bastards, especially
that voted for the Iceland resolution 27 from the Office of the President
that woman, [are] acting like the queen in
never gave or lent us anything ordered a suspension of all negotiations
Alice in Wonderland. First, the
worthwhile or offered with conditions or signing of all loan and grant
judgement, then the trial. [So] no,” he said.
more onerous than the loans we’d have agreements with the countries that voted
to pay back,” Locsin said in a tweet. in favor of the UNHRC resolution last
Locsin was referring to United Nations
special rapporteur Agnes Callamard, a July 11.
vocal critic of President Rodrigo Duterte.

As he “forgives” the Iceland resolution,

Locsin said the Philippines will remain in
the UNHRC and will continue to debate
on issues even those not concerning the

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country.
LOCAL NEWS
Aboitiz and SFELAPCO donates P7-M for
construction of school in San Fernando
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, PAMPANGA
San Agustin Integrated School Annex in
the City of San Fernando is the
beneficiary of the new soon-to-be
constructed building by the Aboitiz
Power and its service partner San
Fernando Electric Light and Power
Company
This as SFELAPCO and Aboitiz Power
officers were in the city over the
weekend for the groundbreaking
ceremonies of the new building.
The event was attended by Aboitiz
Power Corporation first vice president
Juan Alejandro Aboitiz, SFELAPCO
senior manager Jesus Patricio Lazatin,
Maribeth Marasigan of Aboitiz
Foundation, Principal Mario Deraco and
Vice-Mayor Jimmy Lazatin.
The project will feature four classrooms
in a two-storey building that can cater to
the needs of the 350 students of the said
school. The project is made possible
through the joint donation of Aboitiz
Power, Aboitiz Foundation and
Aboitiz Power Corporation
PAMPANGA. San Fernando Electric Light and
Power Company - Aboitiz
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Vice-Mayor Lazatin said that the project
is a welcome development as it would
answer the need for additional
classrooms of the school. The school
currently hosts double shifting of classes
to accommodate the entire student
population.
"This is a clear example of how the
partnership with the private sector can
for the local community," Lazatin said.
Meanwhile, Aboitiz Power Corporation
first vice president Juan Alejandro
Aboitiz said that the project is part of the
corporate social responsibility program
of Aboitiz Power and SFELAPCO. He
added education is part of the major
priorities of Aboitiz with its corporate
social responsibility program with
SFELAPCO.
“We believe that the greatest legacy that
we can leave to our children is
education. It is for this reason that we
make education the main thrust in our
social development initiatives. Again,
the Aboitiz Group of companies
continues to stand by its commitment to
assist communities in where our
companies operate.
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SFELAPCO. We continue to fulfill our mission of

helping people help themselves by
implementing projects that will improve
their quality of lives.” AboitizPower
SVP for Power Trading and Marketing
Miguel Aboitiz said.

Last year alone, AboitizPower Corp.

currently supplies 100% Cleanergy, its
brand of cleaner and renewable energy,
to SFELAPCO. The said energy is
sourced from AboitizPower’s
geothermal facilities in the Makiling-
Banahaw area, and Tiwi, Albay.
AboitizPower’s geothermal plants are
being operated by its wholly owned
subsidiary AP Renewables, Inc.

PAMPANGA. Mayor Edwin Santiago presents

the Cities campaign statement during the
signing ceremony and orientation

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WORLD NEWS

UN Chief basks in climate spotlight, amid global conflict clouds

BY THE MANILA TIMES

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will position himself on

the frontline against climate change as he presides over a UN
emergency summit, a role some say he turned to after
difficulties in resolving global conflict.
Speaking about rising temperatures, the 70-year-old recently
told journalists, smiling discreetly: “I don’t pretend I rule the
world. My main objective is to make as much noise as I can.”

In May, he traveled to the South Pacific where rising sea level

UN Secretary-General António Guterres attends a press briefing to mark the
opening of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the
UN in New York on Sept. 18, 2019. AFP PHOTO
threatens entire island nations and more recently to the
hurricane-ravaged Bahamas, witnessing a devastation the
likes of which he said he had never seen.
Mobilizing the globe’s movers and shakers against climate
change is paramount in the eyes of Guterres, who served as
Portugal’s prime minister from 1995 to 2002 and often
mentions not wanting to leave his grandchildren a destroyed
planet.

However, the focus on climate change

marks an evolution for Guterres, who
arrived in the role in early 2017 under the
belief that his predecessor, South
Korea’s Ban Ki-moon, had already
achieved great things with the 2015 Paris
climate accord.
“Guterres wanted to focus instead on
crisis management,” said Richard
Gowan of the International Crisis Group,
noting in the same breath that Guterres’
“crisis management failed first in
Cyprus, then this year in Libya.”
In Libya, Guterres’ humiliation was
severe. He traveled to the country to
personally advance prospects for a
political solution, only to have one of the
negotiating parties launch a deadly
offensive to seize the capital of Tripoli in
the wake of his departure.
The secretary-general’s human rights
efforts around the world have resulted in
meager gains, with many NGOs
believing he could do much more.
While the UN helped broker the end to a
decades-old dispute between Greece and
Macedonia, which resulted in the latter
country’s name change to the Republic
of North Macedonia, little has come of
efforts to halt conflict in Syria and
Yemen or ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
Following the Monday climate summit,
Guterres will steer the UN General
Assembly, herding 91 heads of state, six
vice presidents, 45 heads of government
and more than 40 ministers through
“diplomatic fashion week” or “diplomacy
speed dating” as the New York gathering
is often called at headquarters.
Potential conflict in the Middle East
between the United States and Iran will
dominate discussion at the General
Assembly, where Guterres will adeptly
work his skill at behind-the-scenes
diplomacy to reduce tensions, in sharp
contrast with his flashier center-stage
efforts on climate change.
On a daily basis, Guterres, who sets his
watch ahead by three-quarters of an hour
— deeply disturbing to some dignitaries
who have visited him — says he strives to
manage jetlag and admits that he doesn’t
sleep on airplanes.
The practicing Catholic said that one of
the difficulties of his job is doing
“everything I can for the billions of
people that live in very difficult
circumstances in the world.”
It’s these sorts of interpersonal skills that
have earned him praise from the majority
of ambassadors working at the UN.
Even amid a push by US President
Donald Trump to slash UN funding,
Guterres has persevered, only just
beginning to make sense of an
organization he might like to head for a
second term.

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EDITORIAL
Ambushing reason, common sense
PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER
Any lowly subordinate knows the abysmal feeling — he says
something he thinks is good for the work, his boss and the
company, only to be undermined by his superior with a bald
denial, or a claim to the contrary.
Salvador Panelo must know the feeling. How many times has
he said one thing on the Malacañang podium as the President’s
mouthpiece, only for the garrulous top banana to say yet
another thing, forcing Panelo to scramble for even more
convoluted attempts at clarification that he himself, in his salad
days as the go-to defense counsel for the country’s high and
mighty, would have laughed out of the courthouse?
Take last Tuesday, when Panelo took to task a new US-made
documentary being shown in film festivals abroad about
President Duterte’s war on drugs. Directed by James Jones and
Olivier Sarbil, the film, “On the President’s Orders,” follows
Filipino policemen as they carry out the President’s bloody
centerpiece domestic program over six months from 2017 to
2018.
Panelo hadn’t seen the film; nevertheless, based on news
reports about it, he blasted the work as biased, defamatory and
“bordering to [sic] black propaganda.”
“The Palace is vexed by the continuous spread of
disinformation against our country’s campaign against illegal
drugs and criminality,” moaned Panelo. “Even the title of the
docufilm reeks with malice, making it appear that the drug-
related deaths were done upon the orders of [Duterte].” No, he
insisted: “Drug-related killings are absolutely not state-
initiated nor state-sponsored.”
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One must admit — if stringing together sentences into a full-
throated defense were the sole basis for whether a lawyer does
good by his client, Panelo is certainly earning his keep well as
the booster-in-chief of the President.
Except… Is the President even appreciative? Does he delight
in seeing his spokesperson and chief legal counsel all bristled
up in righteous indignation over perceived slights to his
beloved boss, only for the boss himself to pull the rug from
under the guy?
Mere hours after Panelo’s early-evening interjection that no,
horrors no, the President isn’t behind the sheer orgy of killings
that has defined his administration, Mr. Duterte, also in
Malacañang, blurted something out before a gathering of
newly appointed officials that, in one fell swoop, virtually
made Panelo out to be, well, a teller of tales, a spinner of yarns,
a fabulist.
The President doesn’t order killings? Mr. Duterte himself all
but begged to disagree: “Loot, p—mo, nanalo pa na mayor.
Inambush kita, animal ka, buhay pa rin!”
That was how the President admitted to the whole nation that
he had ordered the ambush of Vicente Loot, the former mayor
of Daanbantayan, Cebu, whom he had tagged in 2016 as a
“narco-general.”
In 2017, Duterte said, “I told Loot, you son of a whore… I will
kill you.”
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SPORTS NEWS

Philippines shows promise despite losses to Indonesia, Thailand in

ASEAN Grand Prix

BY: MARC ANTHONY REYES

REPORTER

Finally, after all the hoopla involving its formation, the

Philippine women’s volleyball team got to know how it stood
in the scheme of things.
Its heart-breaking five-set defeat at the hands of Indonesia, 25-
21, 26-28, 12-25, 25-18, 15-9, in Friday’s A Grand Prix
opener gave a glimpse of what the much-followed squad is
capable of doing.

“You know we are a strong team, we have our definite

strengths and weaknesses so we were able to get through and
show what we are made of and what we can do well,” said top
Members of the women’s volleyball team head back to the bench after the
loss to Indonesia. —MARC ANTHONY REYES
spiker Kalei Mau.

“I thought we didn’t really get off to a

good start for the game. We’ re actually
starting to with a super crunchtime of a
warm up,” said Mau. “I didn’t actually get
to to my pre-game ritual, everything was
kinda off from the beginning.”

She added: “And the girls, we just didn’t

have the energy going into the match. So,
I think the next game we gotta change that
if they’re gonna give us a little bit of time
to warm up or we probably gotta do that
on our own before we get here.”

The Philippines went on to drop its

“But you know it’s not how you started,
it’s how you finished so I thought,
obviously Indonesia wanted it more,”
added the FIl-American open hitter, who
scored 15 points versus Indonesia.
For starting libero Dawn Macandili, the
game revealed how little they know each
other on court.
“They (Indonesia) are not that tough, but
I think we need to develop chemistry on
the court,” said Macandili.
Head coach Shaq delos Santo said he is
thankful of the outcome because its
showed team’s character which is
essential in its quest to medal in the
coming Southeast Asian Games.
“The coaching staff is very proud of the
players because they gave everything
they got,” he said. “We just fell short. We
need this kind of exposure and finally to
get get completed.”
The Philippines missed the services of
key players Alyssa Valdez and Mika
Reyes who are recuperating from minor
injuries and will join the team in the
coming training camps.
Mau also felt that the team was coming in
hot because of the short time they were
allowed to warm up inside the busy
Terminal 21Mall courts.
second game in a row but the team went
down swinging before yielding a 25-13,
25-21, 23-25, 25-20 loss to perennial
Southeast Asian Games champion
Thailand Saturday afternoon.
Mau paced the Filipinas anew with 12
points against the Thais.
The Nationals hope to end their campaign
on a winning note against Vietnam on
Sunday.

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BUSINESS NEWS
Gasoline prices spike up by P2.35/liter; diesel by P1.80/liter
BY MYRNA VELASCO
It will be an extreme financially draining week for Filipino
consumers as prices of gasoline will climb by a hefty P2.35 per
liter; while diesel prices will rise by P1.80 per liter this week.
The price of kerosene will also go up by P1.75 per liter – and
this will come as a punishing blow not just for households but
also for industries relying on this commodity, including those
in the fishing sector as well as the aviation industry.
As of press time, the first one to send its cost adjustment
advisory was Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation; and the
price hikes will be effective 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday (September
24).
The actual price adjustments just seesawed slightly from the
initial estimates of the oil companies, because Friday trading
in the world market has yet to be concluded when they hinted
of the price trends.
The surge in prices this week is manifestly triggered by the
drone strike on the facilities of Saudi Aramco last Saturday
(September 14) – and its affected production accounts for
roughly 5.0-percent of world oil demand.
As culled from the monitoring of the Department of Energy
(DOE), “the drone attack on Saudi Arabia state-run oil giant
Saudi Aramco oil processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais
resulted to damages and crude oil production suspension of 5.7
million barrels per day or nearly 60% of the country’s average
production.” As of August this year, Saudi Arabia’s production
stood at 9.8 million barrels per day.
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The affected processing facilities of Saudi Aramco are two of
its largest – with 7.0 million barrels per day in Abqaiq; and 1.5
million barrels per day in Khurais.
By far, according to market watchers and analysts, “the drone
attacks caused one of the largest oil spikes in crude oil history,”
with the Dubai crude as benchmark for Asian refiners rising by
about US$9 per barrel as of Tuesday (September 17) to the
level of US$67.55 per barrel from a leaner US$58 per barrel
prior to the drone assault.
Nevertheless, the rally in prices immediately tapered off
toward the weekend to US$62 per barrel, as Saudi Aramco
assures “immediate recovery”; while other global producers
guaranteed replacement for the lost barrels.
Saudi Arabia, for its part, has a stockpile of 187.9 million
barrels as of June, as culled from the Joint Organization Data
Initiative (JODI) – which infers then that the oil kingdom still
has a supply shield that could stretch for roughly 26.8 days.
At the same time, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC) indicated that beyond Saudi’s capacity, its
member-countries have spare capacity of 0.7 million barrels
per day; while Russia said it could still lean on 0.25 million
barrels of oil spare capacity.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) or the oil stockpile of
the United States is also holding on to 644.8 million barrels of
crude oil in four sites in Texas and Louisiana, based on data
provided by the US Department of Energy.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Fil-Am teens' 'tinikling with a twist' Pairs of bamboo sticks pound the floor
to make a beat as dancers hop in between
performance goes viral like a game of Double Dutch on a warm
summer night in Foster City.
They only wanted to pay tribute to their Filipino culture, but little did they know
that it would catch the attention of people on social media. "Beans...rice...beans...and...rice,"
Mireya Paulos chants to help the dancers
California-based dancers Olivia Mendoza and Mireya Paulos wanted to pay stay on rhythm. For the dancers,
tribute to their Filipino roots and decided to perform tinikling, a traditional jumping on beat and in unison is the
Filipino folk dance they have seen their aunts and uncles perform in the past. most important element of their
performance. For the pounders handling
"It's just something super different. Not a lot of people, especially if you're not the bamboo sticks, it's hoping they avoid
Filipino, have seen it before," Mendoza told NBC Los Angeles. clubbing any ankles in the process.

The performance was for Mendoza's 18th birthday celebration last August. The performance is known as tinikling,
What made their tinikling dance stand out is the added a hip-hop song, "My Type" a traditional Filipino folk dance that
by rapper Saweetie, to their performance. imitates the movement of the tikling
bird. The bird, also called the buff-
Snippets of the video caught the attention of Saweetie, who reposted it in her banded rail, is known for its ability to
Instagram account. skillfully dodge large bamboo traps.
"Mahal ko ang kababayan kong Filipino (I love my Filipino people)," Saweetie
wrote in the caption. "It's just something super different,"
dancer Olivia Mendoza says. "Not a lot
According to Mendoza and Paulos, the recognition inspired them to continue of people, especially if you're not
performing and sharing their tradition to Filipinos in the area. Filipino, have seen it before."

The dance, particularly a modern

version performed by Mendoza and her
friends, recently went viral on social
media and garnered national headlines.

Mendoza and Paulos said no one in the

group expected the dance to get much
attention outside the cotillion. But then
Saweetie shared their tinikling
performance on Instagram with the
caption "Mahal ko ang kababayan kong
Filipino." Which translates to "I love my
Filipino people."

The video went viral, placing a spotlight

on the dance and culture.

The recognition has inspired Mendoza,

her family and friends to continue
performing and pushing forward the
tradition to a new audience and
generation.

"I think it demonstrates that we know

Paulos, who also choreographed the
performance, posted a video of it on her
YouTube channel.
what our Filipino culture is," Paulos
said. "We recognize it, and we can share
the same values as other Filipinos
around the area."

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CULTURE NEWS
An online museum that immortalizes years of martial rule
BY PORTIA LADRIDO
Last year, during Ferdinand Marcos' 99th birthday, the Official
Gazette's Facebook page posted a tribute to the then-dictator,
saying that Marcos declared martial law "to suppress
communist insurgency," and that he "stepped down" from
power "to avoid bloodshed" at the height of the People Power
Revolution. The post was called out by social media users for
'historical revisionism' and for downplaying the role that
Marcos played in the oppression of human rights. This is one
glaring reality showing how Filipinos remain divided over the
memory of martial law.
Since its declaration in 1972, martial law has always carried
with it two opposing narratives — one perpetrated by Marcos
propaganda that depicted martial law as the herald of a New
Society that will bring about 'change' and 'progress,' and the
other, which displayed the various human rights violations,
evidenced by curtailed freedom of speech and accounts of
individuals who were tortured, jailed, and/or killed.
The opposing narratives are what the newly launched online
portal, Martial Law Museum seeks to address. Spearheaded by
the Ateneo de Manila University, the platform is a community
response to reclaim national memory and promote engaged
citizenship; a resource with a mission to reveal extensive
information gathered of the 14-year dictatorial rule in order to
educate the public of the truth.
"Like it or not, this dichotomy is out there in the public arena
and to deny its existence is to fool ourselves into a state of
mindless oblivion or deliberate forgetfulness," says historian
Maria Sereno Diokno, during her keynote speech at the launch
of the online museum.
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For Diokno, it is necessary and significant that Filipinos
memorialize the shared experience of oppression and
resistance to oppression, especially at this time in the
Philippines where there is a perceived "creeping
authoritarianism." She cites the 'problematic' actions of
government bodies of today, like the National Historical
Commission of the Philippines' (NHCP) decision to give
historical markers both to Marcos and her father, Jose "Ka
Pepe" Diokno.
Her family, upon hearing the decision on Marcos' burial,
refused to accept NHCP's marker for her father. “How can two
diametrically opposed historical roles — one of a dictator, the
other of a defender of freedom and privacy — be rewarded
equally by the nation's historical body? By conferring
historical recognition upon both Filipinos, the NHCP board, in
my family's view, sets a moral equivalence to oppression and
resistance to oppression.
Arjan Aguirre, project director of the Martial Law Museum,
says that what jolted the team into creating the website was the
burial of the dictator in the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Another
motivating factor for them was the near victory of Bongbong
Marcos during the 2016 elections.
The platform is not purely about the dictator and his family;
the information goes beyond the Marcos reign. "Our initiative
is not just against a person, it's more of an initiative to engage
a phenomenon called dictatorship or authoritarian rule,” he
says. “We are here to commit ourselves to those things that are
usually affected ... by authoritarian rule: human rights,
democracy, freedom, individual dignity, etc."
Aguirre also adds that it is a communal, intergenerational
initiative, which means that all the information in the website
is a collaborative effort among past and present generations,
academic institutions, and civil society groups that all aim to
present the truth about the dictatorship.
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SOCIETY NEWS

An online museum that immortalizes years of martial rule

BY DAILYHUM.NEWS

In the journal First Monday, research by Ferrara and colleagues Luca Luceri (Scuola Universitaria
Professionale della Svizzera Italiana), Ashok Deb (USC ISI), Silvia Giordano (Scuola Universitaria
Professionale della Svizzera Italiana), examine bot behavior during the US 2018 elections compared to bot
behavior during the US 2016 elections.

The researchers studied almost 250,000 social media active users who discussed the US elections both in
2016 and 2018, and detected over 30,000 bots. They found that bots in 2016 were primarily focused on
retweets and high volumes of tweets around the same message. However, as human social activity online has
evolved, so have bots. In the 2018 election season, just as humans were less likely to retweet as much as they
did in 2016, bots were less likely to share the same messages in high volume.

Bots, the researchers discovered, were more likely to employ a multi-bot approach as if to mimic authentic
human engagement around an idea. Also, during the 2018 elections, as humans were much more likely to try
to engage through replies, bots tried to establish voice and add to dialogue and engage through the use of
polls, a strategy typical of reputable news agencies and pollsters, possibly aiming at lending legitimacy to
these accounts.

In one example, a bot account posted an online Twitter poll asking if federal elections should require voters
to show ID at the polls. It then asked Twitter users to vote and retweet.

Lead author, Emilio Ferrara, noted, "Our study further corroborates this idea that there is an arms race between
bots and detection algorithms. As social media companies put more efforts to mitigate abuse and stifle
automated accounts, bots evolve to mimic human strategies. Advancements in AI enable bots producing more
human-like content. We need to devote more efforts to understand how bots evolve and how more
sophisticated ones can be detected. With the upcoming 2020 US elections, the integrity of social media
discourse is of paramount importance to allow a democratic process free of external influences."

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TRAVEL AND TOURISM NEWS

PH's Masungi Georeserve receives UNWTO recognition

The Masungi Georeserve in Rizal province has

received an international recognition for its sustainable
tourism practices at the annual World Tourism
Organization (UNWTO) Awards in Saint Petersburg,
Russia on Thursday.

Masungi Georeserve was nominated last year as a

global finalist for the UNWTO Awards for Enterprises,
the flagship awards of the global tourism sector, along
with two other finalists from Italy and India.

The three were chosen among around 190 applications

from 71 countries that vied in the three awards
categories: Public Policy and Governance, Enterprises,
and Non-Governmental Organizations. The 2019
UNWTO Awards for Enterprises eventually went to
Community Impact by V Resorts, V Resorts (under the
aegis of Bliss Inns Pvt. Ltd.), India.

"When we first started geotourism at Masungi, we hoped that guests would see something special in it like we
did. Fast forward to today, the project is receiving its third international nod from no less than the United Nations
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)," the Masungi Georeserve said in a statement Thursday.

"Our wish came true, for the world to see something special in a piece of rock that was abandoned many years
ago, and for the world to come together to protect it," it added.

The destination, known for its sprawling limestone landscape and trails perched on towering trees, is located at
Kilometer 47, Marcos Highway in the town of Baras, Rizal.

For over a decade, the Masungi Georeserve Foundation has sustained and increased measures to protect the 2,700
hectares of vulnerable land, often targeted as a site for quarry and illegal logging.

Although challenges persist in its conservation efforts, the foundation said the UN recognition strengthens their
resolve to further protect the destination.

"We will not, as we have not, shy away from facing the complex challenges in conservation and innovation in
the Philippine setting.

On behalf of the Masungi family, thank you for supporting us in your own different ways," it said. Early this
year, the conservation area was also nominated for the World Travel & Tourism Council's Destination
Stewardship Award. (PNA)

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