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Environmental protection is the key to the preservation of our environment. This entails involvement of various individuals, organizations, and nations in a united effort to establish an environment that is giving life on Earth with comfort and convenience with its rich, safe, and abundant natural resources. These involvements can range from an individual level, community level, up to an international level wherein whatever pursuits and objectives that have been laid out, it must go hand in hand with its tools and mechanisms in order to carry out and implement its programs.
Community-based resource management can be an instrument in encouraging individuals to become involved in many ways in the process of improving the environment once it is established in a particular place. Like any social and political movement, environmentalism encompasses a wide range of approaches which can preserve and protect the environment.
One of the many ways in which an organization at a community level can produce result is to imitate the style of several organizations which have been acknowledged by an environmental organization. For example, “Nature Conservancy” an international non-governmental organization (NGO) whose major function has been to help purchase lands that are important to conservation and to ensure that these lands are maintained as nature preserves. The other is “Greenpeace,” whose activities have included maneuvering small boats between whaling ships and whales in an attempt to prevent and draw attention to the practice of whaling.
These types of organizations are now in the process of just maintaining their standards and simultaneously enjoying the benefits of their already founded organization, and credit should be given for their successful program implementation. It should be taken into consideration that establishing organizations like these requires intensive expertise and resources to carry out its objectives. In the political aspect of establishing a community-based resource management organization, government support should be always present in any of its undertakings particularly if the people behind it are planning to launch the organization as an NGO.
A community-based resource management organization requires not only money and power to exist in a manner that it is being effective and beneficial, but expertise from those people staffing the organization should be the first requirement. Most of the time, those who distinguish themselves as environmentalists, are the qualified people to direct and govern management. An interesting set up here is that enticing people with the capability to lead the organization is not actually a difficult process because of their understanding that this would be good practice ground for leading an organization. This is the correct way to maintain an environmental organization if it wishes to create an excellent technical method in which it is planning to maintain and demonstrate.
The core policies in the community-based resource management organization, particularly if it has the intention to protect the environment, should encompass programs which will pave the way to enriching the sustainability of the natural resources of our environment. The policies must coincide with the beliefs and knowledge of several environmentalists that the World will be destroyed if people do not change their approach to the environment. Provided that this common knowledge will curve how the management has been created, there would be no question to the smooth handling of problems once it occurred within the organization.
One very good example of this is the municipality-sponsored organization which tends to organize both students and non-students in order to make them active by way of contributing something to the environment. It can be very enticing to youth and records show that the most active members would be the out of school youth. The reason for this is probably because the program is actually designed for the out of school youth and that those who are studying in school may find it burdensome to continue such endeavors because it is a regulation to require every members of the organization to finish assigned individual projects within a given period of time.
During the first years of its operation, educating the members on the value of the environment is a priority activity because once it has been settled within the mind of the members that they have the responsibility in protecting the environment they would readily be finding themselves active in the activities as formulated and planned within the organization. Example of activities are beautifying the community through cutting of unnecessary grasses paving the way for growing flowers and trees which form aesthetic beauty of the surrounding, the never ending tree planting in strategic locations where they can grow well, proper disposal of garbage by way of segregating biodegradable, non-biodegradable, recyclable, toxic materials and other categories deemed applicable to the wastes or garbage of the community. The implementation of this program is to allow members of the organization to start it in their own households so that it is encouraged that at least one member from each family must be a member to the organization.
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RICHJOY P ARZAGA
About the Author:
a) Commissioned Officer of the National Hydrographic Office of the Philippines, the Coast and Geodetic Surveys Department of the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority, Department of Environment and Natural Resources holding the naval rank of Ensign.
b) Licensed Electronics and Communications Engineer from the University of the East, Philippines.
c) Part-time Faculty of the Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, College of Engineering of the Technological University of the Philippines.
d) Completed academic units in Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Major in Electronics at the Graduate School of Engineering of the Technological University of the Philippines, Manila.
e) Graduate student of the University of the Philippines Open University (University of the Philippines, Diliman as Learning Center) currently taking up Master in Environment and Natural Resources Management.
f) Former Air Navigations Systems Specialist of the Air Transportation Office, Department of Transportations and Communications, Philippines.
g) Government Property.
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