El Nido Resort’s very own Director for Sustainability Mariglo Laririt is one of the three awardees for this year’s Conservation Heroes award by World Wildlife Fund-Philippines. The recognition was announced last November 10 through a virtual awarding ceremony.
The Conservation Heroes Award is given annually by the said international non-government organization that works in the preservation of the wildlife and reduction of human impact on the environment, the Philippine office includes Laririt along with the guardians of Ipo watershed in Bulacan, and a group of farmers from Mindoro.
Laririt is a ecology professor in the University of the Philippines-Los Baños campus before joining El Nido Resorts two decades ago. She is in charge of sustainable and ecological programs that the resorts implemented in the past.
“I feel honoured and truly challenged to do more for the environment, so much work needs to be done,” Laririt said.
According to Laririt, the possible major impact that made her in the said award is her BE GREEN project for Ten Knots, which made even meaningful impact in this time of pandemic.
“Because of the pandemic, several hundreds of my colleagues in Ten Knots got furloughed, so I came up with the BE GREEN & GREAT program that created green jobs for them, funds were raised so they could still get paid doing coastal clean-ups, running tree nursery, fixing mooring bouys, and protecting nesting marine turtles along several beaches in mainland El Nido, the pandemic pushes us to plan for regeneration of sites, not just responsible tourism,” Laririt said in closing.
Laririt is not the only Palawan-based personality that was recognized by WWF in the past year–Angelique Songco of the Tubbataha Management Office is also a Conservation Hero in 2013 and 2016.
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