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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Everything around you is alive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a world \Nwhere the palette
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is overwhelmingly gray on blue.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're lucky, you get \Na sporadic smudge of green.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here you can see \Nthe world breathe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Highways are replaced by streams, \Ncars by canoes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your eyes think that \Nyou're surrounded by land,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's a trick.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Underneath the growth, \Nmore water,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a quiet resistance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You follow one path today, \Nand by tomorrow it's gone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no place \Nin the Philippines
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that carries more mystery\Nthan the Agusan Marsh.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people see these wetlands \Nmerely as ecosystems
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and important biodiverse areas.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others see them \Nas big bags of cash,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,land to be turned \Ninto highly efficient farms,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a few people see them \Nas a home.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is their story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary \Nstretches across
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,40,000 plus hectares \Nof wetlands,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,roughly the size of Manila.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one of the biggest \Nin Southeast Asia
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of the most vital \Nin the Philippines.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Ramsar Site, globally recognized \Nbut barely talked about.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all interconnected by lakes, \Nrivers, marshes and ponds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It acts like a giant sponge \Nduring typhoon season,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absorbing flood waters \Nfor the entire Agusan River Basin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without it, who knows \Nwhat would happen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to neighbor towns like Butuan?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's home to rare birds, \Nfloating villages,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and indigenous communities \Nwho've learned to live
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the rise \Nand fall of the water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's under threat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pollution and climate change \Nare slowly choking it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Life cannot simply exist \Nwithout the Agusan Marsh.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The marsh protects everything here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you talk \Nof the Agusan Marsh,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you got to take into account \Nthe bigger picture
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Agusan River Basin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Technically, that's the third \Nlargest river system
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Philippines, \Nencompassing Regions XI and XIII—
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's Davao and Caraga.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you have here in our town, \Nyour catch basin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And come to think of it, \Neverything revolves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around this catch basin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say that life begins here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There can never ever be \Nan Agusan del Sur
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without the Agusan Marsh.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What's that, Datu?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Walking stick.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Datu Artemio was selected \Nas one of the leaders
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,due to his Lumad lineage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Lumad are some \Nof the first wave of people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to settle in the Philippines, \Nspecifically around Mindanao.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their ancestral land \Nis often highly sought-after,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making them one \Nof the most vulnerable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ethnic groups in the country.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are also one of the few groups\Nthat have held on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their pre-colonial culture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As in most areas \Nin the Philippines,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there is \Na strong indigenous ancestry,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most people with roles to play \Nin the community also happen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have official \Ngovernment positions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Datu was previously \Nan LGU official and now his son
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is barangay captain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They both lead the people \Nin Caimpugan and its peatland,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the many parts \Nof the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The relationship \Nbetween indigenous religions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Catholic Church \Nis complex,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,marked by both historical tensions \Nand reconciliation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indigenous religions, \Noften rooted in animism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and oral traditions, \Nare distinct from the church's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,codified beliefs and practices.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like when we were colonized, \None culture doesn't
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,usually completely erase \Nthe other,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,parts of it are indigenized.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you'll find people praying \Nto the Catholic God
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alongside other entities.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where people live with the land, \Nthese are still
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a common practice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the people here \Nare Catholic,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but their own Lumad culture \Nis still very strong,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it should be.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These rituals are carried out \Nto ensure safe passage
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and acceptance \Ninto the community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What we have here within \Nthe Augustan Marsh Wildlife Santuary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the Caimpugan peatland.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The peatland, it covers just 3% \Nof the Earth's surface.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But according to the ICUN, \Nthey believe that peatland
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conserves 30% \Nof the world's carbon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is twice as much \Ncarbon sequestered
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as compared to all \Nthe rainforests combined.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The conservation of wetlands \Nis crucial because it mitigates
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the impacts of climate change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it is damaged, \Nit releases tons of CO2
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far greater than anything \Nin order to uplift
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and protect our wetlands.