Buhid
Bongabong, Occidental Mindoro
The Buhid Mangyans live in the municipalities of Roxas, Bansud, Bongabong and some parts of Mansalay in Oriental Mindoro, and in the municipalities of San Jose and Rizal in Occidental Mindoro.
The Buhids are known as pot makers. Other Mangyan tribes, like the Alangan and Hanunuo, used to buy their cooking pots from the Buhids. The word Buhid literally means "mountain dwellers".
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Buhid women wear woven black and white brassiers called linagmon and a black and white skirt called abol. Unmarried women wear body ornaments such as a braided nito belt (lufas), blue thread earrings, beaded headband (sangbaw), beaded bracelet (uksong), and beaded long necklace (siwayang or ugot). The men wear g-strings. To enhance body beauty, the men wear ornaments like a long beaded necklace, tight choker (ugot) and beaded bracelet (uksong).
Buhid Mangyan People News
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Why We Need To Be Stewards Of A Rare Mountain Ecosystem
When we protect a place like the Mts Iglit-Baco National Park, it reflects well on us Filipinos. It shows that we care about the richness of our natural and cultural biodiversity.
We start to care about something only after we become aware of how valuable it is.
So let me tell you what makes this national park something we can be proud of as Filipinos.
Mts Iglit-Baco National Park is a rare mountain grassland ecosystem.
When you think "grassland," you usually imagine flatlands like those in Africa. And when you think "mountains," you probably think of forests and trees. The park is ... -
Who Are The Lumad
Manilakbayan 2015 is on, with mostly lumad, indigenous peoples (IPs) from Mindanao, coming to town on an awareness-building campaign. Monday evening, after a long grueling all-day caravan from Baclaran, down Taft to Liwasang Bonifacio, on to Mendiola, they finally arrived in UP Diliman where they will be staying for a week with a Kampuhan.
Who are these lumad and why are they in Manila?
I thought I should start with a global picture of IPs, a collective term with many different definitions that have been proposed. One of the early advocates for IP rights, Jose Martinez Cobo, offers this ... -
Solons Seek Probe Of The Agrarian Reform Program In Mindoro
Rep. Teddy Brawner Baguilat, Jr. (Lone District, Ifugao) has called for a congressional inquiry into the implementation of the agrarian reform program in the ancestral domain of the Buhid Mangyan in Oriental Mindoro.
In filing House Resolution 1623, Baguilat urged the House Committees on Agrarian Reform and the National Cultural Communities to invite the officials of Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to shed light on the matter.
Baguilat said in September 2010, Buhid Mangyan leaders of Oriental Mindoro have filed a petition before the DAR for the cancellation of Certificate of Land Own ... -
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.
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Tamaraw population growing
The Tamaraw, the dwarf buffalo endemic in this central Philippine island, which many people considered a national treasure, has grown in number since it was declared an endangered wild animal 14 years ago, a conservationist group said on Sunday.
Rodel Boyles, project manager of the Tamaraw Conservation Program (TCP), said from a remaining herd of 154 in 2000 the Tamaraw population has more than doubled based on the actual count conducted in the second quarter this year in the 16,000 hectare Mt. Iglit-Baco National Park, the animal's core habitat.
"From that small number, it rose to 382 ... -
7 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); ...