NATURE FOR LIFE 'THE DEATH OF LIFE'

The Manila Times | August 5, 2006| | Copyright

LATE last year Sr. Aida Velasquez of Lingkod-Tao Kalikasan invited me to the book launch of Fr. Sean McDonagh's book, The Death of Life. Father Sean's involvement in environmental issues, especially the extinction of species, began when he was a missionary in Mindanao in the 1970s and 1980s. He said that his ecological conversion took a long time and if he was not asked to work among the T'boli, it might not have happened at all. He relates that when he was studying to be a priest in the estate of Dowdstown House in Ireland, he was surrounded by a variety of native and exotic trees but did ...

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