Bangon

The Bangon Mangyans live along the Bongabon river called Binagaw and the surrounding mountains in the municipalities of Bongabong, Bansud, and Gloria in Oriental Mindoro.

The Bangon Mangyans have their own culture, language and writing system, different to the other tribes in Oriental Mindoro, and asserted they be considered the seventh major tribe – not a sub-tribe of the Tau-bui ...

d. In a March 28, 1996 meeting with Buhid Mangyans in Ogom Liguma, they decided to accept the word Bangon for their tribe.

Bangon Mangyan People News

  • How To Save The Philippine Tamaraw

    A glimpse on the critical situation of the Tamaraw, or Mindoro dwarf buffalo, in the Philippines and what is done to protect it.

  • Conservation Areas For Tribes Identified

    Concerned government agencies and conservation groups have identified seven areas in the country inhabited by particular tribes, which will serve as pilot sites for a conservation area project led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

    Director Theresa Mundita Lim of the DENR’s Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) noted Mt. Kalatungan Mountain Range in Bukidnon, home of the Menuvu Community; Cabangan, Zambales and SanFelipe, Za™ found; Mt. Iris, General Nakar, Quezon where the Agta Dumagat-Remontados abound; Mt. Iglit in Oriental Mindoro (Buhid and Bangon tribes) ...

  • Bangon Mangyans Barter For Aid

    To avoid mendicancy, a unique tribe in Mindoro island province is initiating bartering to fend for themselves and as a way of getting help.

    The Provincial Care Forum, led by Bishop Warlito Cajandig, head of the Catholic missionary vicariate based in Calapan City, identified this week the primary needs of Bangon tribesmen and the concerned agencies that can help address their needs in a way familiar or customary to them.

    Cajindig, in a consultation meeting held in Barangay Hagan here this week, said the aim was to uplift the lives of indigenous people here and develop livelihood, and, eve ...

  • All Mangyans Want is Children to Learn

    Formed in 2009, Haggibat, the organization of Mangyan tribes, has caused the building of 16 to 18 literacy schools among seven tribes in communities in the uplands of Mindoro. But all their efforts would come to naught if the military would continue to harass them to stop them from organizing against the operations of mining firms.

    Every opening of the schoolyear, the spotlight is focused on the public school system’s lack of classrooms, books and toilets. Often though, the spotlight misses the school situation of indigenous children. For children of the Mangyan, an indigenous people’s ...