Lake Manguao

Last August 15, 2013 my professor in Engineering Environmental gave us a lecture about wetlands. At first I only thought that wetlands there are only few kinds of wetland but after explaining to us that wetlands are areas that is saturated by water and have unique soil called "hydric soil". It became clearer that there are many types of wetland. One example of a wetland in the Philippines is lake manguao.

After making research about the lake manguao. I found out that it is a 643 hectare area and has a mean altitude of 25 meters above sea level. Lake manguao is located at Taytay, northern palawan island and nine kilometer ride from the town center. It contains unique environment that is why it is very suitable for freshwater fish and domestic birds. There are three endemic fish that lives in the lake that is why it is protected by the local government thus making it non commercialized and can only be access by arrangements. It is also home for some domestic and international birds that is why lake manguao is popular with bird watchers. Lake manguao is also called as lake danao by the locals but because of several lake in the Philippines that has the same name lake danao is change into lake manguao. Lake manguao is not suitable for swimming because the water is very mossy and deep. 

Map of Lake Manguao.

Photos of Lake Manguao.

Carbon Cycle

Carbon cycle is when all of the carbon in our system rotates in every part of the ecosystem. After hearing that me and my group mates will portray the carbon cycle my first thought is "how do we do it?". Later that day my professor announced that the skit will be a short video so me and my group mates have assembled and plan that we will have the shooting the next day. After the film shooting was done me and my group mates reviewed the footage and that is when I finally realized that it is not that hard to understand how the cycle goes and after doing some research I found out that carbon cycle is very basic because base on my understanding in what the carbon cycle is. All of living things emit carbon dioxide and all of the carbon is combine in the atmosphere and then distributes on plants and sea. Then the plants and sea emits back oxygen that is inhaled by living things then the cycle repeats itself. 

Nobody in this planet cannot live without carbon it is needed in almost all of the inhabitants in this planet. In order to sustain the balance of all living creature. After the video shooting I came up on a conclusion that our bodies cannot operate well if it has no carbon in it might as well the other cycle.

Carbon Cycle Diagram

Footprint Analysis

After doing the ecological footprint that my professor gave to us. I find out that my ecological footprint exceeds at by .3 hectares. Basically a normal household footprint is 1.0 hectare and after reviewing what I have input on the excel file that my professor uploaded. I found out that one factor that affects my ecological footprint is the number of people in the house. My family composes of 5 member me and my two brothers and my dad and mom. after reviewing what my necessities and need on the excel file I found out that because my family composes of four boys and one girl. We tend to consume more food and housing necessities thus making our monthly hours of life energy exceeds than normal.

Then I tried to lessen our consumption and after one week I recompute my ecological footprint and was surprised on the results it made. My family ecological footprint goes down to 1.0 hectare then it came out of my mind that if my family tries to lessen all of their consumption maybe our ecological footprint would go down. And to draw my final conclusion I think that if every family in the country tries to less down their consumption our ecological footprint for the whole country may go down.