Mount Apo Guide
Kidapawan City, Cotabato
Bagobo Mount Apo Guides can be found in barangay Ilomavis, Kidapawan City, Cotabato, near the jump off point for the trek to the top of Mt. Apo. The Manobo tribe also protects the western slopes of Mt Apo.
Mount Apo Guide News
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MANP-PAMB To Create Committee To Protect Mt Apo
The Mt. Apo Natural Park-Protected Area Management Board (MANP-PAMB) will create a multi-sectoral committee on forest protection to ensure that similar massive fire last year will not recur as the Mt. Apo reopens next week.
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 11 director Ruth Tawantawan said this committee will be tasked to propose measures for the protection of the country's highest peak, most especially overseeing the current plans of the local government units in combating forest fires.
"We are hoping that there will be changes in the implementation as well as on th ... -
Conservation Champions Go To Great Heights To Preserve Biodiverse Mountain
Conservation International, the Philippines is home to more than 20,000 endemic plants and animals.
Meanwhile, illegal wildlife trade and deforestation deplete these species and their habitats, destabilizing the nation.
In 2012, USAID launched the five year, $22.5 million Biodiversity and Watersheds Improved for Stronger Economy and Ecosystem Resilience (B+WISER) Program to help the Philippines conserve biodiversity, manage forests, support low emissions, and contribute to disaster risk reduction in seven protected areas in the country.
Key to the program's success are partners like J ... -
Mount Apo porters now wildlife officers
Porter Joel Mabandos, 27, flashed a rather shy smile as he led the way on the shortest, yet most difficult, Ilomavis trail of Mount Apo, the country's highest peak at 3,143 meters above sea level.
Apo, a 64,053-hectare protected area, is home to many unique plants and animals, as well as indigenous peoples.
"I have been a porter since I was 14. I find this job enjoyable and fulfilling. I'd probably grow old doing the same thing," said Mabandos, who belongs to a Manobo family of porters.
For every climb, he earns about P350 and is one of more than 200 registered porters in Kidapawan Ci ... -
The Grand Father Of Philippine Mountains
Apo is a Filipino word means "ancestor" or "grandfather" "or master" and or "elder" is a large solfataric, potentially-active stratovolcano. Located between Davao City and Davao del Sur Province and Cotabato province with elevation 2,954 meters (9,692 ft) above sea level, with a vast area of 72,796 hectares is the highest mountain in the Philippines, and the second in all of Southeast Asia's mountains.
Mount Apo was declared as National Park in May 9, 1936 with proclamation No. 59 by President Manuel L. Quezon, followed by proclamation No. 35 of May 8, 1966 then proclamation No. 882 of S ... -
Mt Apo A Visit After More Than A Hundred Years
If praises could be heaped, Mt. Apo would have mountains of them. All it takes for one to utter compliments is a good plunge into its fastness.
The Bagobos who inhabit its valleys are aware of Apo's hidden pulchritude, wove tales around it, and told them from generation to generation. These tales which were narrated with realism later on spread to the lowlands and fired the imagination of a handful which later on multiplied to thousands.
According to these tales, Apo is the abode of Sandawa, a goddess who married Matutum, a god who lived on another mountain several ranges away. As the ta ... -
Training For Mt Apo Guides Begins In Kidapawan
The city government on Tuesday started training 30 forest tour guides, 11 of them members of ethnic groups that revere the majestic Mt. Apo as "tribal god," to help protect the country's highest mountain.
Mt. Apo, a known sanctuary of endangered animal species, including the Philippine Eagle, with thick forests that are also watersheds of rivers that flow downstream to hundreds of villages in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato and Davao del Sur provinces, has an altitude of 2, 954 meters, or 9, 692 feet above sea level.
Joey Recemilla, chief of the Kidapawan City Tourism and Investments Prom ...