The case of AGMIHICU's traditional forest ... - Rainforestation

Community-based NTFP management: The case of
AGMIHICU's traditional forest management systems.

AGMIHICU
Agtulawon Mintapod Higaonon Cumadon
Mintapod, Hagpa, Impasugong, Bukidnon
• CADT No. 054 approved and awarded on May 15,
2008.
• 14,300 has.
• 13 communities, 2500 individuals
• 85% forest
• 15% cultivated.

Population
56% Higaonon
5% Mestiso
39% Settlers
(Cebuano)

IMPORTANT NTFPs
• Traditional medicinal plants
• Almaciga
• Abaca
• Honeybee
• Wild Fruits
• Wild animals
• Rattan

Important NTFPs
Medicinal plants
• Hikom
• Maliit na punongkahoy, ginagamit ang ugat
para gamot sa bagong panganak, binat
• Lang-git
• Balat ng baging
• Gamot sa bali sa katawan
• Pwedeng tina sa kamuyot

• Almaciga (Salumayag)
Important NTFPs
• Avoid overcutting around the tree
girth/circumference.
• Avoid deep tapping.
• The tapping should not exceed 8 inches in length and
should be slanting
• The harvesting of almaciga inside the sanctuary and
reserve areas is not allowed without the permission
from datu.
• The outsiders are not allowed to harvest and will be
punished if violated this rule.
• Do not open up kaingin in areas with almaciga.

• Honey (Malabusog)
• Do not burn the hive
Important NTFPs
• Do not hurt or damage the
branch of support tree
• Do not harvest the beehives
intended for the spirits.
• The hives are protected and
harvesting is not allowed.
• Will not be allowed to harvest
if not inside his gaup. Need to
ask permission from the gaup
owner.

Important NTFPs
• Abaca
• Raw material for their hinabol
cloth
• Kamuyot bag- traditional gift
• Wild abaca (Musa textilis)

Abaca
Harvesting protocol
• Mature stalks
• Maintenance of area
• Protection of other trees in
the area
Threats
• Propragation of abaca thru
monoculture (diseases)
• High demand of commercial
abaca fiber
• Loss of habitat

Important NTFPs
• Wild fruits and forest food
• Gagatuson (mushroom)
• Rattan fruit
• Wild animals
• Baboy ramo, bake

Important NTFPs
• Rattan
• 26 species
• Based on the simplified inventory NTFP
system conducted last 2009: 10 species
recorded (8 of it needed to identify the
scientific names)
• Average volume: 498 lm/ha

• Harvesting protocols:
• Only Community members are allowed to harvest
• 25 meters above harvestable, cutting of young rattan is
not allowed
• No cutting of trees: kahoy na kinakapitan ng rattan
• Do not damage the seedling, shoots, and juvenile stems.
• Do not cut or harvest immature stems
• No shooting, capturing of wild animals
• Harvest at designated area only, one area at a time
(ZONING)
• No harvest at the declared, protected, sanctuaries

• The wildlife such as monkeys, birds and the
rattan are protected and should not be
harvested unless with permission from the
elders/datu.
• The outsiders are not allowed to harvest
rattan and will be punished if violated this
protocol. (if without permission from the
datu)

TRADITIONAL FOREST
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• Sanctuary (Patagonan o bahawbahaw)
• sacred place, place of worship
• walang pwedeng galawin: trees and wild animals
• Breeding area
• Traditional herbal medicines
• Watershed
• Walang pwede pumasok maliban sa isang bantay gubat
• Sanctuary declared and protected by the ancestors and
handed down to the present generations.

Threats and Challenges
• Mining
• Palm oil plantation
• Logging
• Selling of ancestral lands to settlers
• Presence of armed groups
• Conflict in ancestral domain policies and
Government policies (ADSDPP, NTFP policies,
etc.)

Recommendations
• Promote traditional forest management
• identify place and manner in harvesting
NTFP’s
• Tribal Leaders to act as traditional leaders
• Agencies to help tribal communities
preserve and promote culture and traditions.
• Agencies to encourage tribal communities
to use only organic farming

(Patagonan) Sanctuary
(300 has)

Sanggayan sanctuary
(1000 has)

• Daghan
Maraming Salamat..