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Philippine Indigenous communities restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding
On the slopes of Mount Kalatungan, a protected area on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, rows of robusta coffee shrubs thrive alongside tropical hardwoods like lauan. The verdant ...
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Native trees, local wildlife thrive under Philippine tribes’ ‘rainforestation’
On the island of Mindanao lies Mount Kalatungan Range Natural Park, a protected area that’s two-thirds primary forest and is home to Manobo tribespeople. Since 2021, NAMAMAYUK, an Indigenous ...
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Philippine Indigenous communities restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding
Indigenous communities in the Philippines’ Mt. Kalatungan protected area have since 2015 carried out a tree-planting campaign to restore native vegetation lost to decades of commercial logging ...