Nepenthes attenboroughii. Found on Mount Victoria in central Palawan, Philippines in 2007 after a tip from two Christian missionaries who saw it in 2000 when they climbed the mountain.
Where else could you find rare wildlife but in Palawan, and who else would discover them but foreign scientists. It amuses me that it would take people from halfway across the globe — a country with less people than ours — to take great interest in nature’s great wonders and make important scientific discoveries in our own backyard.
Is it too much to expect from our close to 90 million people to discover and protect its own? Isn’t it ironic that we have presence in all countries in the world and yet fail in conquering our own land?
But this is nothing really new. We always look at the others to find something good, aping them by all means because we find them superior. Our standards of greatness lie in the achievements of others and not what we have attained on our own. We take pride not in discovering, asserting and developing our own, but in imitating and conforming to the others.
We would rather morph into somebody else than be ourselves. And we find nothing wrong with it.
(For full story read Rat-eating plant discovered in Philippines )
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