Ang naturang lugar ay idineklara din bilang bahagi ng bufferzone ng Mt. Palay palay - Mataas na Gulod Forest Reservation/National Park, (Proclamation No. 1594). Bilang isang deklaradong lugar para sa konserbasyon ng likas na yaman at turismo, ang Ternate ay hindi dapat pahintulutang malapastangan, bagkus ito ay patuloy na dapat maproteksyunan. Kasabay nito, ang Ternate ay naitalaga bilang Environmentally Constrained Area, ayon din sa Provincial Developmental Plan ng Cavite. Ito ay nangangahulugan na hindi maaaring gumawa ng anumang aktibidades o proyekto na maaaring makaapekto o makapagpabago sa natural na estado ng naturang lugar.
Idagdag pa dito ang katutuhanang ang lupa sa naturang lugar ay volcanic, na ang uring ito ay makakapagpalala lamang ng pagsira ng lining ng isang landfill, dahilan ng pagtagas ng mga nakalalasong katas ng basura. Kung sa gayon, ang Ternate ay hindi tugmang lugar para sa isang tambakan ng basura. At ayon din sa mga pag-aaral, tulad ng ginawa ng Unioted States - Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA), kahit pa sa isang normal na uri ng lupa at mataas na kalidad ng liner, ang kahit anumang landfill ay magkakaroon ng pagtagas ng mga nakalalasong katas, dahil na din sa mga kemikal na dulot ng mga itinambak na basura.
I’ve often heard and read that life - some things in it - are a matter of trade-off; I may have been agonizingly unable to get online for the past 4 days thanks to the world-class (you wish!) service of the commercial power monopoly that is Meralco, I was able to catch up on my offline reading. I wasn’t only able to catch up, I was able to finish reading all the new books I bought last month. In the span of that 4 days of living life to the basics, thanks to Ambeth Ocampo and his Bones of Contention: The Bonifacio Lecture, I finally understood the origins of the term ‘Filipino‘ and why Andres Bonifacio has always referred to his fellow Katipuneros as “Tagalogs†some hundred years ago when the Philippine nation was born - right before it was sacked and perverted by Uncle Sam which is another story.
Our booming population has demanded lands be converted to agricultural use however, globalization and the rising trend of land use conversion which has been targeted for industrial, commercial, recreational and residential uses are mostly irrigated agricultural lands. This has threatened the country’s food security and has added more pressure to the ecosytem due to the added pollution and resource consumption by industrial, commercial, recreational and residential demands and activities. The end result is appalling, reduced soil quality, emergence of species resistant to these chemicals, pesticide poisoning, genetic erosion, and decimation of hundreds of indigenous rice varieties with the use of HYVs
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