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Healing Nature and Contributing to Local Community Development: The Story of Barangay Batangan, General Nakar, Quezon

NPS-ENRMP. (2013). An IEM Story: Healing Nature and Contributing to Local Community Development: The Story of Barangay Batangan, General Nakar, Quezon.

 

“Ang pagmamalasakit sa kalikasan ay magdudulot ng tiyak na magandang kinabukasan”

- Barangay Batangan, General Nakar, Quezon

 

Batangan is one of the 19 barangays of General Nakar, Quezon, located at the Kanan-Agos River Watershed. About half a century past, Batangan was blest with lush virgin forests and streams that teemed with varied fishes. In the early 1950s, the barangay, including adjoining communities, hosted a logging company whose operation through the years has diminished local forest resources in the area. The situation even worsened with the ensuing influx of illegal loggers, timber poachers, wildlife hunters, kaingineros, and land speculators.

 

Thus, the diverse natural forests in the area suffered an alarming degradation and biodiversity loss. This situation has weakened the ecosystem resiliency and threatened the

flow of environmental benefits to on- and off-site communities. Forest denudation also exacerbated the impacts of landslides and floods to downstream population, as what happened in November 2004 when consecutive typhoons Uring, Violy, and Weny struck Aurora and Quezon, causing the loss of many lives and big damage to crops, properties and infrastructure, natural disaster.

 

The National Program Support for Environment and Natural Resources Management Project (NPS ENRMP) was started in the Kanan-Agos Watershed in 2008 to promote holistic management of land, water, and living resources through unified individual and collective actions. The overall goal is conservation of natural resources as well as socio-cultural and economic development for the local communities. Among the strategies pursued by the NPS ENRM Project is rehabilitation of degraded areas of the watershed through a partnership between the local Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) office and the local government units, which involved active community participation. This article tells the story of the successful implementation of this partnership in Barangay Batangan, which resulted not only in the restoration of the environment but also in the development of the local community.

Subject: 
Agroforestry
Referostation
Livelihood
Success Stories
File: 
PDF icon Batangan Article.pdf
Physical Location: 
CD ENRMP 2013 ss
Project Title: 
National Program Support for Environment and Natural Resources Management Project (NPS-ENRMP)
Publication Type: 
Success stories