A tropical rainforest has regrown against all odds on the edge of the Metro Manila’s biggest open-air dump, and is now a patch of green paradise in a sprawling metropolis blighted by giant slums.
The only nature park in Metro Manila, the La Mesa watershed, a thicket about a fifth the size of Paris, wraps around a dam that stores drinking water for the metropolis of 14 million people.
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