GT: Favorite Subject

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It's back to school for me, and hopefully I won't flunk another subject so that this semester will be my last. I don't want to stay too long in UP Min. I'm getting fed up with that place. I'm happy to report to you though, that I survived another first week of school blues without my BA Communication Arts batch mates. I miss them a great deal! Okay, let me wipe my tears now. 

This week's Girl's Talk assignment is to blog about our favorite subject in school. I have a lot of subjects in mind like Asia and The World, Ethics, Philosophy, Intercultural Communication, Public Relations & Marketing, and many more. I already posted about Arts and Society which is also my favorite subject, so now I'll be choosing another one, and that would be MST 6.

MST 6 (Math Society and Technology 6) or simply Biodiversity, was taught to us by one of my favorite professors in UP Mindanao -- Dr. Antonio R. Obsioma. Let me give you a little background about him. He is the head of the Solid Waste Management Program which covers selected barangays in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur, Panabo City, Samal and Davao City. That makes him credible and suitable enough to handle the subject.

Sir Obsioma imparted many things to us. He never stopped to show us some videos and Powerpoint presentations about biodiversity until we find ourselves fully appreciating our environment. I've loved MST 6 more when we went on a field trip in Philippine Eagle Center and of course, in the Island Garden City of Samal. We had an island-hopping adventure. I really had fun learning from him! Education and entertainment combined.

Here are some of the important things I've learned from our MST 6 class last semester. I hope that through this post, you will also learn even a little from him:

• Theory of Catastrophe: every time a major calamity happens, new set of animals will emerge.

• People have genetic potentials to become something, but there are times that these potentials are not exposed by the environment.

• If nutrients are bound on you, you deprive others to live because no recycling can occur.

• Filipino native animals may look inferior when it comes to economic value, but they can withstand extreme conditions.

• With increasing human pressure on biological resources, rates of extinction can only be accepted to accelerate.

• Some species are not really extinct, they may just be undocumented.

• If the consumer is a specialist, it may drive itself and the food source to extinction.

• The presence or absence of a particular organism in an ecosystem would reflect the actual condition of an environment.

• Cyanide is used for live fish trade; while dynamite is used for targeting school of fish.

• For so long now, fish are caught much faster than their ability to naturally replenish.

• All of the loss is caused by human activities, mostly through habitat destruction and over hunting.

• Biodiversity is a necessity, not a luxury; it is important to the economy; it is essential for food security; it safeguards human health; and most especially, it affords us life support system.

MST 6 will forever be a part of my list of favorite subjects, because it made me realize the importance of biodiversity in our ecosystem. Thank you Sir Obsioma for broadening our knowledge on biodiversity!