Areas Available for Community Based Forest Management

AREAS AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNITY BASED FOREST MANAGEMENT

by Anton Antonio

April 12, 2015

“The key objective of the Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) program is economic self-reliance through the improvement in the general quality of life of upland communities.  The CBFM aims not only to provide additional livelihood opportunities to upland dwellers but also to develop and encourage alternative, non-forest based related livelihood activities in the upland communities.  The ultimate objective is for these upland communities to be self sufficient with other livelihood activities while gradually reducing their dependence on the forest and its products and resources as livelihood and economic goods offered in the market.”  (Antonio, 2015)

For the purposes mentioned in the preceding paragraph, areas are made available for Community Based Forest Management projects.  Here is a list of areas available for CBFM (Villanueva, 2002):

1. Uplands and coastal lands of the public domain;
2. Areas covered by Timber License Agreements, Industrial Forest Management Agreements and other relevant forest land contracts, leases, permits and agreements;
3. Areas covered by expired permits for non-timber forest products;
4. Multiple use zones, buffer zones and other areas within the protected areas where utilization activities may be allowed;
5. Forest land assigned by law under the administration and control of government agencies; and,
6. Certified ancestral lands and domains, and other areas occupied by indigenous cultural minorities, known to be ancestral but not yet covered by Certificates of Ancestral Domain Claims (CADC).

These are the areas available for Community Based Forest Management.

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REFERENCE:

Antonio, A. C. (2015). “Objectives of Community Based Forest Management”.  Retrieved on April 12, 2015 from http://antonantonio.blogspot.com/

Villanueva, T. R. (2002). “Upland Ecosystem Management”. University of the Philippines Open University, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines