As the highest form of animal God has created, for He has created us from his image and likeness, we as a human being has been given a responsibility to take care of all God’s creations. Sadly, not all of us are doing our responsibility. If there are people who strongly care about our environment, there are also those who do not care at all.

We are all connected, one-way or another, even the smallest particle of God’s creation is important. As the authors of the “Red List” say, “The world has changed and is changing so much due to climate change. Our biodiversity is among our most important assets to ensure our resilience amidst these changes. We must start with our endemics because they are the most significant indicators of our environmental health, thus, our capacity to adapt to climate change.” Red List has 29 Philippine fishes listed as extinct and detailed information about each fish are also written there. A fish that most Filipino knows, dilis is in the red list. Isn’t it alarming? Who would have known that dilis is extinct.

There is a limitation to everything and extinction is one way of saying that the limit has been reached and we have to do something to fix it.

I am thankful to LopezLink for bringing this to my attention, know I have been awaken from a long sleep and it is time for me to do something. Because of this, I Like the Facebook page of LopezLink. This post is the start of my journey of doing my responsibility as a human being and I suggest you do the same. It is time to wake up and encourage everyone to do something to save our planet. Saving fishes could be our starting point into saving the whole of God’s creation.

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Red List Status of Marine Endemic Teleosts (Bony Fishes) of the Philippines

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