Join IP Children & Elders Replant 1000 Trees

Hi everyone, this report supposedly due last December has been delayed being overtaken by other events. Nevertheless, rest assured  but our tree planting activities continue what with the vast expanse of areas to be covered still.   During the last quarter of the year, women, elderly youth and children continue to regulary do the community social forestry work.  This means searching for naturally-growing tree species, nuturing these for a time in makeshift nursery before replanting.  

Likewise, after more than a year, the replanted specifies has gained rooting and their survival certainty already assured.  Hence the community people are continually moving to the next patches where scald areas are vulnerable to erosion.  Luckily in 2023, the storms hitting the Philippines though appearing strong at the onset weakens upon entering the PHilippine area of responsibility, or just made flybys without touching ground.  This greatly spared areas from enormous damage.  The replanted area in our project site have  enjoyed the benefits of less disruption as regards the continued growth of those earlier planted.  Also, much of the sites were spared from flood and erosion that sometimes overrun seedlings newly planted.

We can say in 2023, we are gaining good inroads in replanting and currently has covered about 5 hectares of open spaces composed of undulating, hilly and steep slope areas.  We are looking forward to have a growth tree survival of 75 to 85 percent at most.  Despite changes in local  weather, 2023 has been favorable from onslought of typhoon-borne natural disasters with no violent storm hitting this upland areas.

We will be facing another challenge though as the weather forecast for 2024 will be El Nino's season.  This means, possible event of vast dry trees and shrubs that could be highly combustible redounding to possible forest fires.  We could not afford to put to wastes a couple of years of gains in tree planting.  Hence the community will ensure that forest fires would be averted as much as possbile  and to create more awaress of the dangers for the coming El Nino.  They could do this by utilizing their "lappat"  system  or indigenous ways of protecting their natural resources including their forest and watershed.

Again we thank you all for supporting this effort.  Every donation you gave would mean a couple of trees added to revive a heavily-exposed  land area where trees once abound.  Thank you and may you continue to support this noble work to contribute reducing greenhouse gasses as well.  Most importantly, we can help rebuild the forest which is a source of food medicine and environmental safetynet of indigenous peoples.