Mangrove Clean Up Drive at Our Paradise Resort

On October 23, 2012; our group LOGSAC has spearheaded an extreme clean up drive at Our Paradise Resort in sitio Talao, Barangay Tuban, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. It was scheduled through the verbal request of the resort management and was directed by Sta. Cruz mayor Joel Ray Lopez through a Memorandum Order.

Our Paradise Resort is known for its vast mangrove reserve area but since it is situated in an area flapped with a long brackish water outlet connecting Tuban and Barangay Zone 4, trashes are flowing at the resort compound. There are even cellophanes knotted within the roots of the mangroves, as well as some other debris creating eyesore to resort visitors.

In an effort to free the mangroves of these trashes, the new management of the resort has tapped the services of mountaineering groups in Sta. Cruz. Along with LOGSAC in unloading those trashes are Team Palaka of Coronon headed by Evan Bandoquillo and the ever supportive Calumpang Mountaineering Club (CAMOC) led by Kimber Clark Acson.

Half of the mini dump truck non-biodegradable and residual wastes were generated during that half-day clean up drive which was then collected by the Solid Waste Management personnel of Sta. Cruz.

Thank you to my club-mates who joined the clean up namely: Trecelyn, Faridah, Catherine, Butchie, Hardi Joy, Glenn Mark, Kirvy, Eboy, Jonas, Jercpas, Hector John, Mulong. Special thanks also to the Ecological Solid Waste Management Committee of Sta. Cruz Engr. Jessie Joy Berallo and his crew.