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Part II Community-Based Forest Management Program - ppmrn

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SOUND IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES/ACTIVITIES<br />

existing claims. These conditions adversely affected the growth of trees<br />

planted and sustainability of the Weighted Average Survival Rate (WASR)<br />

attained upon project termination as discussed below:<br />

• Inclusion of areas with mineral deposits at the Dumayop Watershed<br />

Sub-project, Nueva Vizcaya which resulted in the destruction of the<br />

established plantation in the affected area.<br />

One of the requirements in the conduct of appraisal as indicated in the<br />

community profiling is gathering of data on mineral resources which<br />

could be secured from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), the<br />

National Mapping Resource Inventory Authority (NAMRIA) and<br />

LGUs.<br />

Review of the DENR documents and inquiry with the MGB, however,<br />

disclosed that DENR did not request information or conduct site<br />

verification on potential mineral deposits within Magat Watershed<br />

Project or Dumayop Watershed Sub-project located at the towns of<br />

Bagabag and Quezon in Nueva Vizcaya.<br />

The team was further informed by MGB that they were ready with<br />

Mineral Resource Profile of the different provinces in Region 2 as early<br />

as 1995 and a listing of metallic and non-metallic prospects of Nueva<br />

Vizcaya where Bagabag was found to be endowed with gold and sand<br />

and gravel while Quezon is rich with gold and copper. As such, these<br />

information were not captured in the appraisal of Dumayop Watershed<br />

Sub-project conducted in 1996.<br />

In view of the failure of DENR to consider the mineral resources, the<br />

subproject area covered a portion containing manganese mineral<br />

deposits which were subsequently mined damaging 7.69 hectares of the<br />

established plantation as of November 14, 2005. The damaged area was<br />

estimated by the team to be P255, 826.54 of which only P99, 801 was<br />

recovered from the mining operator as of November 2005.<br />

Interviews with DENR personnel revealed that, and as observed during<br />

project inspections, the growth of trees planted in adjacent/near mineral<br />

deposits are stunted. Thus, in the terminal report of the sub-project, it<br />

was disclosed that the PO did not attain the minimum survival rate of<br />

80% with only 59.34% Weighted Average Survival Rate upon<br />

termination.<br />

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