Social Media for Environmental Protection
Earlier this year there was a forest fire in Riau, Indonesia. This forest fire since then has affected other countries such as Singapore. Throughout this week, Singapore is choked with thick/dense haze and the haze is now reaching unhealthy levels. To combat the forest fire, activists helps out the locals. Of course helping the locals is not an easy or cheap thing to do, thus activists reach out to the people around the world through social media so that the activists will receive donations to help out the locals. Usually through the social media, activists will reach out through social media by posting about the forest fire in order to spread the awareness of this event, they then will get more people to help them combat the forest fire or they will receive resources essential for the locals to thrive and survive. According to a Huffington Post article posted in 2017, Social Media can be a perfect tool for crowd gathering by supporting and spreading the awareness and messages i...