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“USUFRUCT Project”
• Approved sometime in 2000 by then DENR
Secretary Cerrilles
• Dumagat – 39 Families
• New Settlers- 103 Families
• Cultivators(ambulant) or the
kaingeros -105 individuals
Inventory of Boats operating at
Ipo watershed as means of
transport and fishing
Motorized – 25 Units
Not Motorized – 26 units
The DENR’s RESOURCES FOR IPO
Watershed Protection
Only 4 warm bodies are assigned to conduct
needed foot patrol from DENR to forest of Ipo.
• DENR Forest guards do not conduct regular
patrol to the forest of the watershed.
•Patrol lacks necessary logistical needs, firearms,
equipment & communication system.
• Inadequate augmentation from MWSS, MWSI
and MWCI
OTHER PROBLEMS
• Existence of logging syndicate. Allegedly with
participation of of some workers assigned at the
Ipo Dam. They are timber and charcoal traders.
Usufruct
areas
Veterans at mount
Balagbag
A 40 has upland rice,root crops and
vegetable farming at Sapang Baliwag
Remnants of huge dipterocarph trees at
Sapang Baliwag. About 9 has. wide
Taken on aerial inspection. Mount
Maranat Area April 26, 2004. This is
for ground inspection by the Team.
A 9 hectare cornfield at Mataas na
Buhangin
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Fresh Cut Tree at Sapang Munti. The
members of the team over heard on 21 July
2004 at 12:00PM chain saw machine
cutting this tree. This is red narra.
Fresh Cut Tree in the midst of the forest at
Sapang Paco
Invasion of settlers to Mount Balagbag
(Known as Veterans)There are 200 to 250
families now residing
A 15 has. Upland Rice and Vegetables
Farm at Sapang baliwag
A 15 hectare kaingin at Mataas na
Buhangin. Destroyed also were the
newly planted seedlings
17-hectare wide kaingin with dipterocarph
species trees razed to the ground.
A 30 has kaingin now a cornfield and
upland rice farm.
A newly cut tree. Dipterocarph species
along ipo river. That’s the crown area of
the tree having 2-ft diameter.
A 30 has upland rice farm. Debris of
kaingin trees at sapang munti
The top of mount maranat which is
covered by cogon and bamboo shrubs.
1 meter diameter 38 ft long timber at
sapang anginan. A 10 hectare kaingin
Remnants of kaingin trees
LET US SAVE WATERSHED
RESERVATIONS
Thank You