People, before you patronize watching the crappy fantasy series on your TV, I want you to be aware that MOST of the production people of these TV series are not at all conscientious in creating their sets on the locations, especially on forests, caves, sea, river sides. They ALWAYS leave the natural sites dirty, bastardized and vandalized!!!
Please don't help the crappy, greedy and stupid TV producers to earn so much from our environment's expense! I personally got to know this as some of the caves I went through were vandalized by the production outfits. A cave is public and government owned. But when a cave is within a private property or land, watching over the cave is a big challenge especially if the government is not that keen on conserving these natural sites and they have not yet set the management and tourism plan for that cave.
An example of this cave is the Calinawan Cave at Tanay Rizal. The cave guide even disclosed to me the movies, TV series shot on their caves for a fee of P 20,000 per day of shooting with no conditions. Meaning, the production staff can do WHATEVER they want inside the cave. So they went on putting nails on the stalactites so that they can hang the incandescent lights, they covered the same with glue and splashed glitters on it to make the show location appear sparkly on TV, they created swimming pools inside the cave, blasted portions of the cave and even painted the caverns silver destroying the precious spleotherms.
It's so heart breaking to see how the stalactites and stalagmites that formed hundreds to thousands of years got destroyed by mindless TV and movie producers who does not care at all with our natural resource and environment. Caves can never be replaced, rehabilitated and rebuilt. The only way to stop this people from continuing destroying the caves is to not patronize their movies and TV shows and massive information campaign about the importance of caves and its ecosystem. Moreover, people should not rely on government alone to watch over our caves, in this case, even the 'cave owner' sold the precious cave resource to the TV industry, people need to realize the importance of this ecosystem and be vigilant in watching over it. Information should be shared by informed people such as you and me to as many people as possible so that potential abusers and passive citizens can think twice in making untoward activities on caves or in any part of natural environment.
Knowing and not helping in correcting a wrong doing or situation is favoring the oppressor of our nature.
Below are the photos taken inside the worst cave I've ever seen.
I went here twice and in a span of a year, I saw the cave changed from bad to worst. The only good news when I heard when I came back the second time is that, the cave is now being closely monitored by DENR-PAWB. A government agency taking care of protected areas and wildlife.
I just do hope that when I return again one day, the cave will be alive again...
Please don't help the crappy, greedy and stupid TV producers to earn so much from our environment's expense! I personally got to know this as some of the caves I went through were vandalized by the production outfits. A cave is public and government owned. But when a cave is within a private property or land, watching over the cave is a big challenge especially if the government is not that keen on conserving these natural sites and they have not yet set the management and tourism plan for that cave.
An example of this cave is the Calinawan Cave at Tanay Rizal. The cave guide even disclosed to me the movies, TV series shot on their caves for a fee of P 20,000 per day of shooting with no conditions. Meaning, the production staff can do WHATEVER they want inside the cave. So they went on putting nails on the stalactites so that they can hang the incandescent lights, they covered the same with glue and splashed glitters on it to make the show location appear sparkly on TV, they created swimming pools inside the cave, blasted portions of the cave and even painted the caverns silver destroying the precious spleotherms.
It's so heart breaking to see how the stalactites and stalagmites that formed hundreds to thousands of years got destroyed by mindless TV and movie producers who does not care at all with our natural resource and environment. Caves can never be replaced, rehabilitated and rebuilt. The only way to stop this people from continuing destroying the caves is to not patronize their movies and TV shows and massive information campaign about the importance of caves and its ecosystem. Moreover, people should not rely on government alone to watch over our caves, in this case, even the 'cave owner' sold the precious cave resource to the TV industry, people need to realize the importance of this ecosystem and be vigilant in watching over it. Information should be shared by informed people such as you and me to as many people as possible so that potential abusers and passive citizens can think twice in making untoward activities on caves or in any part of natural environment.
Knowing and not helping in correcting a wrong doing or situation is favoring the oppressor of our nature.
Below are the photos taken inside the worst cave I've ever seen.
A silver painted stalactite
the makeshift pool area for a TV series mermaid
A nail in the silver painted cave column
the big column with glue bits where they put glitter clusters
another one with glue marks
the still naturally sparkly stalactite with glue marks
Me and a friend on top of the blasted cave area
I went here twice and in a span of a year, I saw the cave changed from bad to worst. The only good news when I heard when I came back the second time is that, the cave is now being closely monitored by DENR-PAWB. A government agency taking care of protected areas and wildlife.
I just do hope that when I return again one day, the cave will be alive again...
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