Project Update and Interim Report: February 2008

I am happy to report that after a long period of waiting for the right time to enter the communities, we finally did so last month. Tulgao, one of our project sites, is actually made up of two distinct political units. We held a community meeting for both sites and have received community endorsement to proceed with the resource inventory and mapping. We were, however, not as successful in Dananao (Chananaw).

The community had refused the project despite some members wanting it earlier. After familiarizing ourselves with the area, we found out that there are afterall two major watersheds, and given our resources, we can only realistically inventory Tulgao. In our final report, we will provide our insights instead on our own experience in Dananao on the process of free and prior informed consent.

Read more about the progress to date together with photographs in the report below.