These photos taken in 2007 at the Catanduanes Watershed Forest Reserve, a protected area. Twenty-two years after being proclaimed as a forest reserve, now a part (500 hectares) of it, is under threat of inclusion in the looming coal mining operation on the island. Please view the map below.
The white line on the map is the area proclaimed as Catanduanes Watershed Forest Reserve on June 23, 1987 under Proclamation No. 123 by the former President Corazon C. Aquino. A 26,010 hectares of forested areas, covering the municipalities of Virac, San Andres, Caramoran, San Miguel and Baras.
...maybe, its about time to know the true value of our forest, now, and not by the time they are gone, permanently and irreversibly damaged.
Maps: Google Earth and Protect Planet Ocean
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...maybe, its about time to know the true value of our forest, now, and not by the time they are gone, permanently and irreversibly damaged.Maps: Google Earth and Protect Planet Ocean
RELATED LINKS:
- Rice, Not Mines - British MP Reports on mining in the Philippines
- Wildlife - Deers, wild boars and monkeys
- Bird Watching - Owls and birds.
- Will Northern Catanduanes Be Another Semirara? - Planned coal mine in Panganiban (Payo), Caramoran and San Andres
- Catanduanes Watershed Forest Reserve - Protected area in Catanduanes
- Church Forms Technical Working Group vs Mining - CT - Catanduanes Bishop forms group against mining
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