In addition to environmental education and advocacy geared toward the public, what is the best way to ensure that our forests are around forever, and are healthy enough to provide for just as long? Download the primer on the Forest Resources Bill or HB 3638.
From the primer: “The regulation, centralization, and inequality of forest policy, as described by Sajise (1998), goes way back during the colonial period, when the ownership of all the lands and resources of what would become the Philippines was stripped from the people and claimed by the Spanish crown through the regalian doctrine.
This concept of state ownership was embodied even in the succeeding American and post-colonial administrations, down to our present Constitution. The Forest Service was established in 1863, according to Pulhin and Pulhin (2002), while Garrity and his colleagues (as cited in Fernando, 2005) estimated that 68% of our lands were covered in forests during 1876.”
This download includes:
One (1) PDF file, 52 pages. 750kb.
Request this download: email haringibon@haribon.org.ph.
