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紧随菲律宾历史记录最强热带风暴肆虐摧毁大片地区后，一个致力于恢复红树林种植的基层发起组织,展示了生态系统安全和环境完整对于减少灾难威胁的重要性。
泥铲发展基金会是位于菲律宾北萨马省的一个以社区为基础的组织。尽管该地区不是受台风海燕破坏最严重的地区，但其受灾程度亦相当严重。在过去10多年间，该基金会一直在恢复退化的红树林生态系统，以此恢复沿海生态并加强当地食品安全。
沿海植树相当于建立了防御自然灾难的缓冲带，是保护当地经济发展支柱产业内陆鱼和螃蟹养殖免受风暴冲击的一个途径。
台风海燕过后，对环境完整性的社区投资回报被证明的确像预期的那样高。
根据该基金会的邮件回复，台风海燕对社区工程设施造成的破坏程度极小。泥铲发展基金会执行理事李奥纳多·罗萨里奥将当地村镇的恢复归功于被恢复的生态系统功能。
罗萨里奥在邮件中写到：“若是我们没有保护红树林，禁止非法砍伐；若我们没在渔场周围种植树林，那么这次超强台风一定会摧毁贫苦渔民拥有的一切。”
In the wake of the strongest tropical storm on historical record, one that has devastated vast areas of the Philippines, a grassroots initiative that is dedicated to mangrove restoration is showing the importance of healthy ecosystems and environmental integrity to disaster risk reduction.
Trowel Development Foundation is a community-based organization in Northern Samar. Although it was not the region worst hit by Typhoon Haiyan, it was nonetheless gravely affected. Over the last decade, the initiative has reforested the degraded mangrove ecosystem as way of restoring marine life and strengthening local food security.
Tree planting along the coast was also intended to establish a natural buffer against natural disasters, a way of protecting the in-land fish and crab farms that are central to the local economy from storm surges.
In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, the return on community investment in environmental integrity is proving to be prophetically high.
According to email correspondence with the organization, damage to the community project sites were minimal. Leonardo Rosario, Executive Director of Trowel Development Foundation, attributes the resilience of local villages to restored ecosystem functioning.
“Had we not protected the mangrove trees against illegal cutting and had we not planted the areas surrounding the fish farms,” writes Rosario, “the super typhoon would have destroyed everything that the poor fisherfolk established.”
(Source: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2013/11/13/mangrove-restoration-saved-our-lives-and-our-economy-says-villager-in-northern-samar-philippines-/ )
泥铲发展基金会是位于菲律宾北萨马省的一个以社区为基础的组织。尽管该地区不是受台风海燕破坏最严重的地区，但其受灾程度亦相当严重。在过去10多年间，该基金会一直在恢复退化的红树林生态系统，以此恢复沿海生态并加强当地食品安全。
沿海植树相当于建立了防御自然灾难的缓冲带，是保护当地经济发展支柱产业内陆鱼和螃蟹养殖免受风暴冲击的一个途径。
台风海燕过后，对环境完整性的社区投资回报被证明的确像预期的那样高。
根据该基金会的邮件回复，台风海燕对社区工程设施造成的破坏程度极小。泥铲发展基金会执行理事李奥纳多·罗萨里奥将当地村镇的恢复归功于被恢复的生态系统功能。
罗萨里奥在邮件中写到：“若是我们没有保护红树林，禁止非法砍伐；若我们没在渔场周围种植树林，那么这次超强台风一定会摧毁贫苦渔民拥有的一切。”
In the wake of the strongest tropical storm on historical record, one that has devastated vast areas of the Philippines, a grassroots initiative that is dedicated to mangrove restoration is showing the importance of healthy ecosystems and environmental integrity to disaster risk reduction.
Trowel Development Foundation is a community-based organization in Northern Samar. Although it was not the region worst hit by Typhoon Haiyan, it was nonetheless gravely affected. Over the last decade, the initiative has reforested the degraded mangrove ecosystem as way of restoring marine life and strengthening local food security.
Tree planting along the coast was also intended to establish a natural buffer against natural disasters, a way of protecting the in-land fish and crab farms that are central to the local economy from storm surges.
In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, the return on community investment in environmental integrity is proving to be prophetically high.
According to email correspondence with the organization, damage to the community project sites were minimal. Leonardo Rosario, Executive Director of Trowel Development Foundation, attributes the resilience of local villages to restored ecosystem functioning.
“Had we not protected the mangrove trees against illegal cutting and had we not planted the areas surrounding the fish farms,” writes Rosario, “the super typhoon would have destroyed everything that the poor fisherfolk established.”
(Source: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2013/11/13/mangrove-restoration-saved-our-lives-and-our-economy-says-villager-in-northern-samar-philippines-/ )