Let's Save Our Planet: When Trees Fall to the Ground

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 No. 44, March 2, 1999
On the front cover: Dingdong Dantes and Antoinette Taus
On the back cover: Mauro “Malang” Santos and his grandchildren
for the Bear Brand Full Cream Milk print ad

This Let’s Save Our Planet article written 19 years ago, “When Trees Fall to Ground,” is about the environmental horror that is logging.

“Let the fields and everything in it rejoice. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, because He is coming. He is coming to judge the world; He will judge the world with fairness and the people with truth.” – Psalms 96:12-13, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.

 

An Education on Philippine Endangered Species Part III (When Trees Fall to the Ground)

Celebrity World Vol. 4 No. 214, September 18, 1995
On the cover: Jenny Concepcion and Daughter Chloe

Part III of my 1995 Science and Technology Award-winning 9-part special feature “An Education on Philippine Endangered Species” subtitled “When Trees Fall to the Ground.”

Part I – “Paradise Lost, Can it be Regained?” (September 4, 1995)

Part II – “Biodiversity in an Hourglass” (September 11)
Part III – “When Trees Fall to the Ground” (September 18)
Part IV – “Cries from the Wild” (September 24)
Part V – “Saga of the Reptilian Kind” (October 2)
Part VI – “Wonders from Deep and Shallow Waters” (October 9)
Part VII – “Saving Our Marine Forest and Wildlife” (October 16)
Part VIII – “The Deflowering of the Wild Flowers” (October 23)
Part IX – “On the Wings of Hope and Unity” (October 30)

“One is notorious in being like him that brings up axes on high against the thicket of trees.... They have thrust Your sanctuary into the fire itself..... Take a look at the covenant, for the dark places of the earth have become full of the abodes of violence.... Do arise, O GOD, do conduct Your own case at law. Remember Your reproach from the senseless one all day long.” – Psalms 74:5, 7, 20 and 22, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.

Let's Save Our Planet: The Shrinking Wood Supply

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 No. 10, June 30, 1998

On the cover: Dodot Jaworski and Mikee Cojuangco

A timely article in 1998, “The Shrinking Wood Supply” (pp. 46-47), the write-up is still very much significant 19 years after.

“If a tree is cut down, there is hope that it will grow again and will send new branches. Even if its roots grow old in the ground, and its stump dies in the dirt, at the smell of water it will bud and put out new shoots like a plant.” – Job 14:7-9, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.