By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project to plant trees in order to improve the biodiversity of our place. Our focus during this reporting period is to promote the growing and care of indigenous but high-valued fruit and timber tree species including bamboo. The Philippines is very rich in high-valued trees but they are slowly being destroyed by illegal logging and uncontrolled use for the furniture and housing industry. Increase in population also contributes to the loss as mountain lands are used for farming by lowland people with no place to farm in the lowlands going up to hills in order to eke out an existence. They often do slash-and-burn and this is indeed very destructive. During this reporting period, we visited 5 villages in order to introduce the benefits of planting trees and how to plant them so that they would not crowd the planting of cash crops and food for the table. A total of 120 farmer-leaders were oriented about this approach and we hope that they will be able to create a ripple effect and engage other farmers.
Hoping for your continuing support to our initiative.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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