Agusan del Sur Forest Conservation

San Luis, Agusan del Sur

The DENR has intensified an illegal logging campaign in Caraga Region which is aimed at eliminating timber poaching and illegal logging activities and the Manobo are now forest protectors by monitoring and reporting illegal logging activities in the region. Under new conservation guidelines, members of the Agusan Manobo tribe have converted to sustainable agricultural methods. "Since the trees are ...

very helpful in the growth of coffee, we never thought of cutting but protected and preserved them", one Manobo leader said.

Agusan del Sur Forest Conservation News

  • Lumads Join DENRs Forest Protection Secures School For Kids In Agusan Del Sur

    Who would have thought that by planting trees, children of the lumad tribe will be given the chance to learn basic education?

    Being located in a far flung community with the nearest school located some 80 kilometers away via a challenging trail, not to mention the lack of money to spend, families are unable to send their children to school, leaving them illiterate.

    But through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources' (DENR's) national greening program, lumad people are seeing a better future.

    Forest poachers

    turn protectors

    This lumad (Manobo) tribe organization whic ...

  • Wide Tree Planting Activity Steps Up In Caraga Region

    Aiming to "green back" all the idle and vacant lands and watershed areas, the government have set aside P25, 287, 125 budget to fund the 17 projects of the local government units (LGUs) at targeted areas in Northeastern Mindanao, CARAGA region.

    The national government through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is already in 'high gear' in the National Greening Program (NGP) under the agency's Bottoms-Up Budgeting (NGP-BUB) for 2015.

    The NGP-BUB for 2015 budget allocation will be utilizing all available resources of the agency, including its personnel, in the mobil ...

  • DENR 13 holds special confab on Zero Illegal Logging Drive

    Senior staff including the top officials of PENR and CENR offices of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region (DENR) 13 under regional director Nonito M. Tamayo have committed themselves to zero illegal logging by June 30, 2015 in the region during the two-day Special Regional Management Conference held recently at Samping Conference Hall, this city.

    The DENR is putting more pressure on the anti-illegal logging drive, this time with a defined and clear list of strategies and program of actions in a final push to halt the problem that over the year has steadily drained the ...

  • Caraga commits zero illegal logging by end of 2015

    Officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here have committed to end the illegal logging operation before the end of the year in Caraga region.

    The region's top forestry officials also pledged to nail all timber poachers, illegal log and lumber dealers as well as operators of illegally-established sawmills and veneering plants in remaining targeted "hot spot areas," particularly in Surigao del Sur and Bayugan City, Talacogon, San Luis and Esperanza, all in Agusan del Sur.

    This commitment was made during the DENR top management special conference on "Zero Ill ...

  • NGP Transforms Life of Timber Poacher To Forest Defender in Sibagat Agusan del Sur

    A complete transformation from being notorious timber poachers into defenders and protectors of forest by a group of lumads in Barangay Padi-ay, Sibagat, Agusan del Sur is unfolding before the eyes of the DENR 13 officials as offshoot of the National Greening Program (NGP) of the government.

    " I am happy to know that the NGP has abl e to change the behavior and attitude of a group of Indigenous People known for their notoriety as illegal loggers and poachers " DENR 13 Regional Director Nonito M. Tamayo said.

    Director Tamayo was referring to the Sibagat Federation of Tribal Community Ag ...

  • NGP transforms life timber poacher to forest defender

    A complete transformation from being notorious timber poachers into defenders and protectors of forest by a group of lumads in Barangay Padi-ay, Sibagat, Agusan del Sur is unfolding before the eyes of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 13 officials as offshoot of the National Greening Program (NGP) of the government.

    "I am happy to know that the NGP has able to change the behavior and attitude of a group of Indigenous People known for their notoriety as illegal loggers and poachers," DENR 13 regional director Nonito M. Tamayo said.

    Tamayo was referring to the S ...