Religion & Spirituality
In the last two weeks, a petition lodged in Change.org for the incoming Negros Occidental provincial governor Bong Lacson named “Save Negros Forest Park” gathered more than 33,000 signatures online. Behind the campaign are mostly millennials who grew up visiting the said facility in Bacolod City and learning its importance for the conservation of Negros endangered endemic wildlife. Mark dela Paz, Jed Jalandoni, and returning as my co-host, Kath Salimbagat, are featured in this episode as three of the thousands of voices in the community who do not want to see the facility go. They benefitted from the facility’s educational programs during their childhoods, and they did “grow up” with its resident animals: the Visayan warty pig, Tarictic hornbill, Visayan spotted deer, Walden’s hornbill, and the Negros bleeding-heart pigeon.