http://anythingpinoy.com/2008/12/unearthing-forests-bohols-success-in-reforestation/ Pinoy Success, Business, Technology and Income Opportunities Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:03:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://anythingpinoy.com/2008/12/unearthing-forests-bohols-success-in-reforestation/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Forest Policy Research » Blog Archive » Philippines: The country’s first Assisted Natural Regeneration town (ANR) Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:24:41 +0000 http://anythingpinoy.com/?p=300#comment-132 [...] At the crack of dawn, volunteer-residents of San Miguel, Danao town are busy “unearthing” young tree seedlings and other species of flora and fauna buried under the thick cogon jungle in the grasslands of Bohol province. Barangay San Miguel, Danao is the country’s first Assisted Natural Regeneration town (ANR), a success story that is. “This is not a new technology. It has successfully restored forests in Sabah, Malaysia. We can actually bring our forests back,” Pat Dugan, senior forestry expert and president of Bagong Pagasa Foundation, said. The ANR is a viable means of restoring biodiversity in forest rehabilitation, and helps speed up the growth of young tree seedlings by pressing down pesky cogon grasses to expose them to sunlight and other nature’s growth stimuli, instead of lying dormant under a carpet of grasses, such as the ever-present Imperata cylindrica, more commonly known as cogon, Neria Andin, FMB Assistant Director, said. Cogon and talahib or boho grasses are young forests’ mortal enemies, due to the vulnerability both to intentional and accidental fires. In 2007, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Forest Management Bureau-Department Of Environment and Natural Resources and the Bagong Pag-Asa Foundation, Inc. initiated ANR in Bohol. It is now being eyed as one of the options to preserve the country’s vibrant vegetation and rare animal inhabitants. Around the world today, especially in the tropics, deforestation has become one of the most serious threats to biodiversity conservation, livelihood systems, ecosystem functions, peoples’ welfare and sustainable development. FAO said that on average, the global figure of deforestation has been 14.6 million hectares per year between 1990 and 2000. http://anythingpinoy.com/2008/12/unearthing-forests-bohols-success-in-reforestation/ [...] [...] At the crack of dawn, volunteer-residents of San Miguel, Danao town are busy “unearthing” young tree seedlings and other species of flora and fauna buried under the thick cogon jungle in the grasslands of Bohol province. Barangay San Miguel, Danao is the country’s first Assisted Natural Regeneration town (ANR), a success story that is. “This is not a new technology. It has successfully restored forests in Sabah, Malaysia. We can actually bring our forests back,” Pat Dugan, senior forestry expert and president of Bagong Pagasa Foundation, said. The ANR is a viable means of restoring biodiversity in forest rehabilitation, and helps speed up the growth of young tree seedlings by pressing down pesky cogon grasses to expose them to sunlight and other nature’s growth stimuli, instead of lying dormant under a carpet of grasses, such as the ever-present Imperata cylindrica, more commonly known as cogon, Neria Andin, FMB Assistant Director, said. Cogon and talahib or boho grasses are young forests’ mortal enemies, due to the vulnerability both to intentional and accidental fires. In 2007, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Forest Management Bureau-Department Of Environment and Natural Resources and the Bagong Pag-Asa Foundation, Inc. initiated ANR in Bohol. It is now being eyed as one of the options to preserve the country’s vibrant vegetation and rare animal inhabitants. Around the world today, especially in the tropics, deforestation has become one of the most serious threats to biodiversity conservation, livelihood systems, ecosystem functions, peoples’ welfare and sustainable development. FAO said that on average, the global figure of deforestation has been 14.6 million hectares per year between 1990 and 2000. http://anythingpinoy.com/2008/12/unearthing-forests-bohols-success-in-reforestation/ [...]

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