Planting the Right Knowledge
Training for Sustainability Knowledge comes in with understanding, realization and awareness. These three combined with proper training and experience leads to excellence. As one of the training’s goal, community involvement is essential because it is one of the major contributors in community development, specifically reforestation activities. It encourages communities to establish their own nurseries to continue reading : Planting the Right Knowledge
Greens for a Better Future
Strengthened Partnership on Reforestation Save. Enhance. Enrich. Three words that maintain a strong intention, make a big impact and create a massive change. This thought comes in with planting with a purpose—planting for a better future. The ongoing Amburayan River project continues to bring another call to increase the greens within the watershed and the continue reading : Greens for a Better Future
Informing Communities, Inspiring Change
Information, Education and Communication (IEC) is a major component of the Amburayan River project. In line with this, meetings and consultations have been made from the barangay level to the provincial level to promote river protection and inform communities and partners of the importance of river management. As a way of engaging the youth, the continue reading : Informing Communities, Inspiring Change
Lake Buhi And The Amburayan River
An Exchange of Indigenous Best Practices It has been observed that the healthiest ecosystems are in places where indigenous peoples flourish. Their culture, religion and practices are respectful of nature and all that it brings. However, it is also true that indigenous communities are especially vulnerable to the demands of the modern world. The Amburayan continue reading : Lake Buhi And The Amburayan River
Participatory Governance for the Protection of the Amburayan River
Representatives from local government units (LGUs), National Government Agencies (NGAs), and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), together with other community members, gathered for the Public Hearing of the Proposed Lower Amburayan River System Water Quality Management Area held last June 17, 2016 at Estrella Del Mar, Brgy. Vical, Sta. Lucia, Ilocos Sur. The Public Hearing served continue reading : Participatory Governance for the Protection of the Amburayan River
Equipment and Empowerment
People’s organizations prepared for forest fire suppression Firefighting tools were distributed to People’s Organizations in Kapangan and Kibungan last May 17 & 18, 2016 to arm them for watershed conservation after a series of firefighting trainings were conducted in March of the same year. Forest fires are a major threat to the Upper Amburayan Watershed continue reading : Equipment and Empowerment
Measuring the Amburayan River
Communities gathering information for the river’s protection We are often told that water is life, but no one knows this more than communities who live tied to the current and flow of the bodies of water near their home. Communities, farms, families and lives are built around water, settlements are made where there are springs continue reading : Measuring the Amburayan River
Fighting Fire with Knowledge:
Communities Learn Basic Fire Suppression and Prevention Perceptions towards fire and its use and occurrence vary greatly. For farmers who need arable land, fire is a tool for conversion. Government units and ecologists have identified vast areas of forest land and aim for biodiversity preservation to which fire is an ominous threat. It is these continue reading : Fighting Fire with Knowledge:
