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Born to be Wild: Effects of deforestation in the Philippines (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR and KURT DAGATAN)

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URL: https://youtu.be/em1eRDsXD4U
TITLE: Born to be Wild: Effects of deforestation in the Philippines
AUTHOR: Born to be Wild
DATE PUBLISHED: May 12, 2019
KEY INFO: Doctor Nielsen visits Surigao Del Sur and found 20 active mining concessions which are said to be one of the causes of deforestation in the Philippines.

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Born to be Wild: Effects of deforestation in the Philippines

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Biodiversity loss risks 'ecological meltdown' warn scientists (UK/Global) - BBC News - 10 Oct. 2021 (RESEARCHED BY MICHELLE NOVERA)

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TITLE: Biodiversity loss risks 'ecological meltdown' warn scientists (UK/Global)
AUTHOR: BBC News
DATE PUBLISHED: October 10, 2021
KEY INFO: With an estimated one million species in danger of extinction, biodiversity is rapidly declining as a result of human activity. Researchers warn that the world has lost so much natural biodiversity that we risk an ecological meltdown and a future in which we cannot rely on nature to provide the energy and food we require because so much of the land has long been built upon or used for intensive agriculture. This is according to a new study from the Natural History Museum.

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Biodiversity loss risks 'ecological meltdown' warn scientists (UK/Global) - BBC News - 10 Oct. 2021

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Forest Foundation Philippines - Why do we use native trees for reforestation? (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR) 

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URL: https://www.facebook.com/forestfoundationph/
TITLE: Forest Foundation Philippines - Why do we use native trees for reforestation?
AUTHOR: Rabin Canuzo
DATE PUBLISHED: February 21, 2022
KEY INFO: Forest Foundation Philippines is a non-profit company that provides funds to groups that enable people to take action to protect forests. Their advocacies were meant to spread awareness, especially as they are going to have a community engagement in regions and forestry places in Mindanao like Bukidnon. With these, they aim to help and reach a wider audience for their projects.

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Sustainable Development Goal 15 - Life on Land - Tracey Rogers (RESEARCHED BY MICHELLE NOVERA)

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8) PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE OR PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

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URL: https://youtu.be/N5YR2GMhYcI
Title: Sustainable Development Goal 15 - Life on Land
Author: UNSW eLearning
Date: May 14, 2020
KEY INFO: To stop the loss of biodiversity, degraded land was restored. Because this situation can only get worse without a fundamental change in the way environmental law is produced, utilized, and enforced. (RELATION) Loss of biodiversity is a global problem. This means that even our local regions such as Davao Region, Philippines are also affected by it. The help of this promotional video would reach certain audiences to spread awareness about the occurring issues.

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Sustainable Development Goal 15 - Life on Land - Tracey Rogers

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UPLB Horizon Magazine SDG Issue (2020)(RESEARCHED BY MICHELLE NOVERA)

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URL: https://issuu.com/uplb/docs/1q_horizon_magazine_2020
Title: UPLB Horizon Magazine SDG Issue
Author: ISSUU
Date published: August 20, 2020
Key points: In the SDG 15 section of the magazine, tackles about using bamboos and other materials to make sustainable products that would help in restoring our terrestrial ecosystem.

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A Special Role to Play within Bukidnon (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR)

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URL: https://www.forestfoundation.ph/blog/a-special-role-to-play-within-bukidnon/
TITLE: A Special Role to Play within Bukidnon
AUTHOR: Forest Foundation Philippines
DATE PUBLISHED: April 7, 2022
KEY INFO: The Forest Foundation Philippines launched the Best Friends of the Forest Movement (#BFFMovement) Online Fellowship Program to support young forest advocates in the country's most significant forest landscapes.

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Lyberica Yee (RESEARCHED BY MICHELLE NOVERA)

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URL: https://www.facebook.com/100005145961379/posts/1864754907039357/?
TITLE: LEND A HAND
AUTHOR: Lyberica Yee
DATE PUBLISHED: April 6, 2021
KEY POINTS: The post explained the drastic impact of population growth, and modernization to our biodiversity, especially in Davao City

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ENVIRONMENT: WHERE HAVE ALL OUR TREES GONE? (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR)

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URL: https://edgedavao.net/feature/2019/05/10/environment-where-have-all-our-trees-gone/
TITLE: ENVIRONMENT: WHERE HAVE ALL OUR TREES GONE?
AUTHOR: Henrylito D. Tacio
DATE PUBLISHED: May 10, 2019
KEY INFO: Deforestation has been continuously occurring, which resulted to losing the beauty of biodiversity such as mangroves. It was reported that, since the turn of the 20th century, our forest cover has decreased by less than a third. As this sums up the whole country, Davao Region's biodiversity is also affected by the said situation.

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"Overall, destruction of our natural resources is continuing, despite efforts of some of our concerned citizens to protect and manage them." - Dr. Angel C. Alcala, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service
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"A few hundred years ago, at least 95% of the Philippines was covered by rain forest; only a few patches of open woodland and seasonal forest, mostly on Luzon, broke the expanse of moist, verdant land," noted Dr. Lawrence R. Heaney, an American curator who holds honorary appointments at the Philippine National Museum.

By the time the Ferdinand Magellan "rediscovered" the Philippines on March 16, 1521, scattered coastal areas had been cleared for agriculture and residences. Three hundred years later, historical records showed rainforest still covered about 70% of the country.

But during the time of the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, forests were devoid of trees. One critic wrote: "The government under Marcos had close ties to the major logging companies and had allowed the massive deforestation to stimulate the economy though exports."

Today, what remains are but fragments of forests which are scattered all over the country.

"We only have less than a third of the forest cover we had at the turn of the 20th century," deplored Senator Loren Legarda in a statement.

The country losses around 47,000 hectares of forest cover each year, according to the University of the Philippines and Harvard University alumnus. "Most of the country's once-rich forest are gone," said the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) publication, Sustainable Forest Management. "Forest recovery, through natural and artificial means, never coped with the destruction rate."

The forest cover in the lowlands, called mangroves, are not spared from denudation. "Approximately two-thirds of the country's original mangroves have been lost," reported Kathleen Mogelgaard, of the Washington, D.C.-based Population Reference Bureau.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said the principal causes of the decimation of the country's forest cover in the uplands are logging (both legal and illegal), forest fires, and natural calamities (like earthquakes).

Additional threats to Philippine forests come from mining operations - which also cause pollution - collection of fuelwoods (85% of meals in developing countries, according to FAO, are cooked over wood or charcoal), and kaingin farming (slash-and-burn agriculture).

Surging population has multiplied the problem. In the mid-1970s, there were only 43 million Filipinos. Today, there are some 107 million Filipinos and projected to grow to 147 million in 2050.

"Poverty, lack of jobs and wages, and absence of farm lots in the lowlands have forced some people to invade the forest," observed Heherson Alvarez, former DENR honcho and lawmaker, adding that "the illness of the forest is complicated and cannot be cured with a one-stop prescription of a single medicine."

Spreading cities have also contributed to the decimation of forest cover. "Asphalt is often the last harvest for many forests," the late National Scientist Dioscoro Umali once stated in his speech.

"Where have all our forest gone?" Roy Alimoane, the retired director of Davao-based Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center, wondered. "If we do not do anything to reverse this trend, these losses will have tragic consequences," Senator Legarda reminded.

Deforestation is often equated with calamities like landslides and flash floods. Philippine Daily Inquirer, in its editorial, deplored: "In just one decade, 2000 to 2010, 27 floods and 17 landslides occurred, affecting about 1.6 million people each year and destroying crops and infrastructure worth tens of million pesos a year. In all these floods and landslides, deforestation was a major factor. Bald mountains, depleted forests and barren watersheds caused rainwater to flow down and flood the plains."

The removal of forest cover makes the country susceptible to various environmental catastrophes. "Most of these were not seen in such intensity and magnitude before our time," Alimoane stressed. "The signs cry out for immediate, nationwide attention."

Take the case of the wild flora and fauna living in the forests. "Rapid forest loss has eliminated habitat for unique and threatened plant and animal species," Mogelgaard pointed out.

More than 400 plant and animal species found only in the Philippines are currently threatened with extinction, including the Philippine eagle, tamaraw, and waling-waling, according to the World Conservation Union.

A pair of Philippine eagle needs at least 7,000 to 13,000 hectares of forest as nesting territory, according to the FAO. "Deforestation is terrible," commented Dennis Salvador, the executive director of Philippine Eagle Center. "The Philippine eagle has become a critically endangered species because the loss of forest had made it lose its natural habitat."

Once a species is gone, it cannot be brought back to life again. "When the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such one can be seen again," naturalist William Beebe said.

The removal of forest cover has bolstered soil erosion in the uplands, which comprise 60% of the country's total land area of 30 million hectares. "Soil erosion is an enemy to any nation - far worse than any outside enemy into a country and conquering it because it is an enemy you cannot see vividly," warned Harold R. Watson, an American agriculturist who received a Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1985 for international understanding. "It's a slow creeping enemy that soon possesses the land."

But soil erosion is more just than just landslide. More importantly, it threatens food production. In their book, Soil Erosion: Quiet Crisis in the World Economy, Lester Brown and Edward Wolf wrote: "The loss of topsoil affects the ability to grow food in two ways. It reduces the inherent productivity of land, both through the loss of nutrients and degradation of the physical structure. It also increases the costs of food production."

Without forest cover, the watersheds loss their capability to capture water during the rainy season. "There has been a drop of 30% to 50% in the country's water resources in the past 20 years or so," said Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III, an academician with the National Academy of Science and Technology.

Today's "crisis in water and sanitation is - above all - a crisis of the poor," said the United Nations Development Program study, Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Water Crisis. "Unlike the energy crisis," noted Klaus Toepfer, former executive director of UN Environment Program, "the water crisis is life threatening."

Deforestation has also altered the climatic condition in the country. Ask Father Jesus Ramon Villarin, a Jesuit scientist, who localized the global climate issue by exploring rainfall patterns in Mindanao in the last 50 years and the impact on crop production and the supply of freshwater resources.

This was what Father Villarin, who used to work with the Manila Observatory, has found: Rainfall over the northern coast of Mindanao has generally increased over the decades, with the northeast section receiving most of the increase. But the southern regions are experiencing decreasing rainfall, mostly in the south-central parts.

A person is missed when he is longer around, so goes a saying. The same is true with trees. "We have laid to waste millions of hectares of forest land, as though heedless of the tragic examples of the countries of Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, where large areas have become barren, if not desertified. If we have not, in fact, reached this state, we are almost at the point of irreversibility," Alvarez reminded.

One day, Filipinos may wake up without trees anymore. "A person without children would face a hopeless future," American President Theodore Roosevelt declared, "a country without trees is almost as helpless."

Something must be done before it's too late. "From 21 million hectares of forests in 1900, we are now left with less than seven million hectares of forests," Senator Legarda lamented. "This cannot be allowed to be left unchecked. Only by working together, by rallying Filipinos and our leaders to this cause, will we be able to reverse the tide."

The statement of Fulgencio Factoran, when he was the DENR head, is a good reminder. "Our countrymen should not accept environmental degradation as a fact of modern life; instead, they should be willing to go to the forefront with shovel and seedling in hand, or with placards and principles, and articulate their renewed affinity with nature and its elements."

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"Overall, destruction of our natural resources is continuing, despite efforts of some of our concerned citizens to protect and manage them." - Dr. Angel C. Alcala, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service *** "A few hundred years ago, at least 95% of the Philippines was covered by rain fores

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Global Goal Flag 15 to be raised in Marikina Watershed on Saturday (RESEARCHED BY MICHELLE NOVERA)

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URL: https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/healthandwellness/538230/global-goal-flag-15-to-be-raised-in-marikina-watershed-on-saturday/story/
Title: Global Goal Flag 15 to be raised in Marikina Watershed on Saturday
Author: GMA Network
Date published: September 24, 2015
Key points: 50 Dumagat leaders raised a symbolic flag at Marikina Watershed as part of a worldwide campaign to spread awareness about the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. This includes SDG 15: Life on Land and their plans on sustainable materials and products to prevent further biodiversity loss in our country.

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On Saturday, around 50 Dumagat leaders will raise a symbolic flag at Marikina Watershed as part of a worldwide campaign to spread awareness about the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Project Everyone distributed 17 flags to different countries, each representing the 17 SDGs. Global Flag #15, which symbolizes land protection, was given to the Philippines.

According to the UN declaration, SDG #15 is a commitment to "Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss."

"Project Everyone was put up because very few people knew about the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals]. The Philippines did not fare well in achieving MDG targets, especially in poverty reduction and the lessening of infant mortality and promoting maternal health," said Fr. Benigno Beltran, lead coordinator of the Philippine Sustainability Challenge.

Beltran also underscored the importance of indigenous peoples in attaining the targets of SDG 15: "The Dumagats have lived in the Sierra Madre since time immemorial, including the area that makes up the Marikina Watershed, from where Metro Manila gets its drinking water. The Dumagats will symbolize the more than 150 million indigenous peoples all over the world whose habitats in the mountains and rainforests are threatened by climate change and the greed of lowlanders," he said.

More than 300 people, including Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel, will join the Dumagats in planting bamboo trees after the symbolic flag raising.

According to Beltran, the Philippine Sustainability Challenge is promoting bamboo planting in the Sierra Madre because bamboo can provide food and housing materials, prevent erosion of the river banks, and help absorb 400% more carbon than trees.

"An integrated development plan is being crafted to promote the planting of trees and bamboo in the more than 19,000 hectares of the Dumagat ancestral domain in Montalban, Rizal, including the putting up of a pilot farm to teach them regenerative agriculture and how to use technology to have a more efficient supply chain distribution for their naturally grown products in partnership with the dioceses in Metro Manila," said Beltran. - BM, GMA News

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Global Goal Flag 15 to be raised in Marikina Watershed on Saturday

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On Saturday, around 50 Dumagat leaders will raise a symbolic flag at Marikina Watershed as part of a worldwide campaign to spread awareness about the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Project Everyone distributed 17 flags to different countries, each representing the 17 SDGs. Global Flag #15, which symbolizes land protection, was given to the Philippines.

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Illegal logging blights south (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR and KEANNE NATIVIDAD)

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URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/1/22/illegal-logging-endangers-south-philippines
TITLE: Illegal logging endangers south Philippines
AUTHOR: Al Jazeera
PUBLISHED DATE: JANUARY 22, 2012
KEY INFO: As rains trigger flash floods and landslides, Mindanao Citizens blame those who were the reason for the deforestation--the illegal loggers.

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In light of recent disasters, many are searching for someone to blame for the environmental havoc.

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Deforestation sa mundo, patuloy na lumalala | Kaunting Kaalaman (RESEARCHED BY: MICHELLE NOVERA) 

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URL: https://youtu.be/8TY3BLe1B10
TITLE: Deforestation sa mundo, patuloy na lumalala | Kaunting Kaalaman
AUTHOR: ABS-CBN News
DATE PUBLISHED: March 9, 2021
KEY INFO: Due to human activity, more than half of the world's tropical rainforests have been harmed or are in poor condition. In relation to this in the Philippines, or particularly in Mindanao, almost all of the causes of deforestation that happened in the Amazon forest are also the same causes here in Mindanao. One of the most biodiverse and endangered ecological sites in the nation is Mount Busa, which is located on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.

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Deforestation sa mundo, patuloy na lumalala | Kaunting Kaalaman

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Born to be Wild: Visiting a bonsai forest in Dinagat Island (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR)

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URL: https://youtu.be/KQUlarEl9L4
TITLE: Born to be Wild: Visiting a bonsai forest in Dinagat Island
AUTHOR: Born to be Wild
DATE PUBLISHED: May 15, 2019
KEY INFO: Doctor Ferds Recio visited and showed the rich biodiversity of Dinagat Islands (Mindanao), which is also known for having plenty and healthy Bonsai Trees.

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Born to be Wild: Visiting a bonsai forest in Dinagat Island

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KEY STATISTICS ABOUT FORESTS IN DAVAO CITY (RESEARCH BY NIELLE QUILICOT)

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URL: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/country/PHL/28/2/?category=summary&location=WyJjb3VudHJ5IiwiUEhMIiwiMjgiLCIyIl0%3D&map=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&showMap=true
TITLE: KEY STATISTICS ABOUT FORESTS IN DAVAO CITY
AUTHOR: Global Forest Watch
DATE PUBLISHED: Year 2000-2021
KEY INFO: According to the statistics presented by the Global Watch Forest, "From 2001 to 2021, Davao City lost 9.52kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 6.1% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 5.28Mt of CO₂e emissions."

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Baganga's Mangrove Forest restored: An NGP Success Story (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR)

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URL: https://r11.denr.gov.ph/index.php/news-events/press-releases/1422-baganga-s-mangrove-forest-restored-an-ngp-success-story?highlight=WyJyZWZvcmVzdGF0aW9uIl0=
TITLE: BAGANGA’S MANGROVE FOREST RESTORED: AN NGP SUCCESS STORY
AUTHOR: DENR Region 11
DATE PUBLISHED: January 15, 2021
KEY INFO: Following the destruction caused by Typhoon Pablo in 2012, DENR Region 11 worked to restore and rehabilitate the mangrove environment of Baganga, Davao Oriental. 234 hectares of mangroves were estimated to have been planted by 2020, after they began in the year 2015.

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Members of the Poo Kinablangan Developers Association (PKDA) which are beneficiaries of National Greening Program (NGP) in Baganga, Davao Oriental expressed gratitude for the government's assistance when their community was battered by Typhoon Pablo in 2012.

The super typhoon destructed the municipality's mangrove area which caused the loss of livelihood of the coastal community. There were even reports that the residents resorted to slaughtering endangered species such as sea turtles due to scarcity of food.

In 2015, the DENR XI aimed to restore the community's livelihood by rehabilitating its mangrove area. Through NGP, the office handed over cash assistance to PKDA as the selected Peoples Organization or PO which the beneficiaries used to purchase propagules for the replanting of mangroves.

As of 2020, a total of 234 hectares has been planted with mangrove mostly with Bacauan and Pototan species.

With the remaining cash that they had, they were also able to establish a "Floating Restaurant" as their additional source of income. It is exclusively managed by the PKDA members. Though its operation was temporarily stopped due to Covid-19 pandemic, they're still looking forward for a comeback.

"We are grateful for the opportunity that the government gave us. We are now enjoying a better living condition. Thank you as well to DENR that despite our far-flung area, you reached out to us." PO Chairman Hermes Bonsay expressed.

DENR XI-Baganga CENR Officer David Fabila, Jr. also attest to the program's success. "Right now, we can see that the project is successful in terms of socio-economic upliftment and environmental rehabilitation.", he said.

NGP is a reforestation program of the DENR which likewise aims to alleviate the poverty in the country.

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Parent Category: News & Events

Category: Press Releases

Published: 15 January 2021

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Baganga's Mangrove Forest restored: An NGP Success Story

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Members of the Poo Kinablangan Developers Association (PKDA) which are beneficiaries of National Greening Program (NGP) in Baganga, Davao Oriental expressed gratitude for the government's assistance when their community was battered by Typhoon Pablo in 2012. The super typhoon destructed the municipality's mangrove area which caused the loss of livelihood of the coastal community.

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Indigenous youth lead action for Mindanao forests and farms - Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR) 

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URL: https://apupalamguwancenter.essc.org.ph/?p=3058
TITLE: Indigenous youth lead action for Mindanao forests and farms
AUTHOR: Gloria Amor Paredes
DATE PUBLISHED: February 28, 2019
KEY INFO: During a youth summit at the APC Nabag-o school, pupils from the Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center (APC) school in Bendum spearheaded tree-planting and gardening activities. The students and the school aims to share the importance of the interconnectedness of the forests to the life of everyone.

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Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center

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Community spirits were high in Sitio Nabag-o, a village in the Upper Pulangi area in northern Bukidnon, Philippines, as gulang (high school) students from the Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center (APC) school in Bendum led tree-planting and gardening activities during a Tapok (youth summit) on 13 February at the APC Nabag-o school.

This was a different Tapok from previous ones because the event was also a Bentela daw Sayuda, a Pulangiyen practice of visiting and sharing knowledge or information. Gulang students shared with members of the Nabag-o community their knowledge about forest and water management and organic agriculture learned during their Natural Resource Management subject.

The morning was a celebration of Pulangiyen cultural values as the entire community in Nabag-o enthusiastically participated in the fieldwork. Fathers helped Grades 7 and 9 students as they plowed the area at the side of the school for conversion to vegetable garden plots. Mothers and their children accompanied Grades 8, 10, and 11 students in carrying the bagged seedlings and planting these in different areas around the school. The younger children helped collect dried leaves for composting and listened intently to their Ate (older sister) and Kuya (older brother) as they explained the value of waste management.
The vision is a future under the forest canopy
In the afternoon, APC gulang students held a plenary session with community members where the students shared methods and practices in organic farming and in assisted natural regeneration (ANR), an approach in forest and water management that allows natural forests to regrow with assistance.

Gino Suldahan, a Grade 10 student, explained the step-by-step process in ANR from area clearing, to mapping, to making a management calendar. Grade 11 student Edward Walo talked about their technical subject on Bamboo Production and Processing for Sustainable Construction. He shared the cultural value and uses of bamboo as well as its role in improving the infiltration along water recharge areas.

Finally, Marjohn Linggay, from Grade 9, explained the value of organic farming. He said that while inorganic practices in agriculture do lead to faster and easier crop production, community members should also look at the impact of chemical-based farming to the environment and to the health of people. Marjohn emphasized the value of organic agriculture not only to food security and health but also its role in the management of the forest and waters.

In deepening the inputs of the students, Jason Menaling, Forest and Gaup Management team leader and NRM teacher, added that Indigenous Peoples need to continue to reflect on their own understanding of the interconnectedness of forest and water to their cultural identity.

"Our landscape is connected to our source of livelihood. We need to look for sustainability more than anything for the future generation, not only for 'myself' but for 'all'," he said.

He further pointed out the need to slowly understand and learn natural resource management as a process of accompaniment, to live sustainably with other creations and as an expression of gratitude to the Migtanghaga (Creator).

Afterwards, the gulang students facilitated a workshop with the community members to develop management policies and a calendar of activities for the new ANR and garden areas. The community members then identified key people who will lead the monitoring and implementation of their policies and scheduled activities in the calendar.

At the end of the day, the engagement between the APC gulang students and Nabag-o community members resulted in six garden plots prepared and 192 pillar species and 12 giant bamboos planted.

In their closing message, the students of APC Bendum expressed their gratitude for the opportunity to visit and learn with community members in Nabag-o. They shared their hope that what they started are not just the seeds planted, but also the sense of solidarity and interconnectedness in their relations, so that these may grow and be sustained.

In thanking the APC students in return, the parents in Nabag-o shared that they recognize the drastic changes in their landscape brought about by corn farming and how this has affected their land and river, and, consequently, their way of living. They are striving to build a better future for their children. With the new ANR and garden areas, they see a new source of hope and energy in seeking a more sustainable way forward that is grounded on gagaw hu mga pigtanghaga (love for creation).
The Tapok and Bentela daw Sayuda are part of the Hulas youth training activities of the Forest, Farm, and Leadership in the Margins Center, one of the programs of the Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center.

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Indigenous youth lead action for Mindanao forests and farms - Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center

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by Gloria Amor Paredes Community spirits were high in Sitio Nabag-o, a village in the Upper Pulangi area in northern Bukidnon, Philippines, as gulang (high school) students from the Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center (APC) school in Bendum led tree-planting and...Read more

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URL: https://anchor.fm/wildlife-philippines/episodes/Saving-Wildlife-Podcast-on-Northern-Sierra-Madre-Natural-Park-en1emv
TITLE: Saving Wildlife Podcast on Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park
AUTHOR: This podcast is an initiative under the Partnership for Biodiversity Conservation 3 of Tanggol Kalikasan and is being supported by the USAID and the US DOI-ITAP.
DATE PUBLISHED: November 27, 2020
KEY INFO: Doctor Ma. Christina V. Magabilin introduces the Northern Sierra Madre, the largest forest in the Philippines. In order to inform individuals about the environmental changes that are occurring, she shared the flora and fauna of the ISU wildlife sanctuary, which is a part of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park. (RELATION) The awareness that is spread by the speaker is a great help in accordance to the similar situation with what's happening in the Davao Region--the continuous protection of Hamiguitan Range Widlfire Sanctuary

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"UPROOT: A Webinar on the State of Philippine Forests." (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR)

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URL: https://fb.watch/iG5kRu2pOl/
TITLE: UPROOT: A Webinar on the State of Philippine Forests
AUTHOR: We Champion
DATE PUBLISHED: October 28, 2022
KEY INFO: We Champion upheld a webinar for "Plant Tayo campaign" on the State of Philippine Forests. Plant Tayo aims to give Filipinos a comprehensive understanding of environmental protection and arm them with the information they need to fight climate change in their own special way. They hope to raise awareness about the effects of deforestation on indigenous people and local industries through this webinar.

They intend to reduce deforestation in every region, thus their campaign doesn't just concentrate on one side of the country but the entire country.

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UPROOT: A Webinar on the State of Philippine Forests | We Champion: Plant Tayo presents "UPROOT: A Webinar on the State of Philippine Forests.", an online symposium on how deforestation has impacted local... | By We Champion | Facebook

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Over and Under the Rainforest by Kate Messner (RESEARCHED BY: MICHELLE NOVERA)

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URL: https://katemessner.com/over-and-under-the-rainforest/
Author: Kate Messner
Title: Over and Under the Rainforest by Kate Messner
Date published: August 11, 2020
Key points: The value of the land, and appreciation of its beauty is beautifully captured, encouraging a love for the rainforest. The appealing illustrations will encourage the young reader to learn more about the animals and plants found in the glossary. (RELATION) this book is a generalized book that has no specific countries it targets. As it goes to inform, spread awareness and spread love towards rainforest, it would help reach and touch the heart of the readers to be aware of what's happening right now, just like the continuously decreasing life on land here in Mindanao.

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Nongovernment Reforestation in the Philippines: Ways Forward (RESEARCHED BY ANGELO LUIS ANOR)

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URL: https://www.think-asia.org/handle/11540/9235
TITLE: Nongovernment Reforestation in the Philippines: Ways Forward
AUTHOR: Danilo C. Israel
DATE PUBLISHED: June 2016
KEY INFO: The whole aim of the study is to assess the reforestation process of the Philippine forest. The results of the assessments were said to have reforestation by private or non-government sectors could help relieve the situation of the Philippine fauna. This study contributes to a recommendation for Sustainable Forest Management Act to launch more proposals in private sector and also in non-government organizations in promoting reforestations to conserve our own forest.

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Nongovernment Reforestation in the Philippines: Ways Forward

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This study reviews and assesses nongovernment reforestation in the Philippines vis-à-vis government and total reforestation using primary and secondary data. The objective is to identify issues and problems related to nongovernment reforestation and recommend actions that can be undertaken to address them.

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MEMBERS:
MICHELLE NOVERA
KEANNE NATIVIDAD
NIELLE QUILICOT
KURT DAGATAN

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URL: https://r11.denr.gov.ph/index.php/news-events/press-releases/1443-trees-in-the-city-project-launched-in-davao-city
TITLE: "TREES IN THE CITY" PROJECT LAUNCHED IN DAVAO CITY
AUTHOR: Department of Environment Natural Resources Region 11
DATE: July 18, 2021
KEY INFO: One of the aims of DENR Region 11 is to educate what are the benefits of trees and their significance in local forestry. As said in the statement, "Trees in the City" is a project that is timely and relevant to our society. Since Davao is becoming more highly urbanized, the locality still values fauna and wishes to retain the green city amidst the industrialization.