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For many years, residents of a flood-prone Philippine island have elevated their homes with layer upon layer of concrete, only to see floodwaters threaten them again. But on Malolos City’s Pamarawan island, north of Manila, the local community has turned to bamboo poles and discarded oyster shells packed into coconut-fibre nets to form a barrier designed to weaken waves and help shield them from floods.

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00:04Look at it from the perspective of an innovation that is interesting and promising, but just like any innovation, there
00:12must be an assessment as well.
00:13Kung hindi po natin sisimulan yung pag-build ng gantong nature-based solution, mas lalo pong matagal natin mararamdaman yung
00:20magandang dulot nito para sa community, lalo na po sa environment.
00:24At dito po, ang nararamdaman namin pagka may bagyo, talag po nakakatakot. Ang hirap po matulog lalo sa gabi.
00:33Sasabayan po ng kulog at kiblat. Tapos ulam po, maglilimas kami ng bangka. Tapos makangamba kami kada tawid namin ng
00:42dike, sasabayan kami ng kampas ng alo.
00:46Natutuyo na paan namin. Dati po, lagi bahan. Hindi pa yan nagagawa. Ngayon pong nagawa na itong katakada, nakakatungtong na
00:54kami ng tuyo. Malaking bagay ninyo.
01:13Salam po, lagi bahan.
01:33I had been very busy watching a lot of this video.
01:35I've found the other ones that have been done when I was for a while.
01:37I thought that was fun.
01:38It was just fun.
01:41It was fun.
01:50I'm sure that my mom was always very proud to be the only time I had old friends.
01:52It's like I'm not alone.
02:03This is just one single thing, a very small project that hopefully can spark the new hope
02:15for rebuilding our nature, not only in the Philippines but in the whole world.

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