Mount Makiling Forest Reserve

 

Area

1,024 ha

Location

Six municipalities (Los Baños, Calamba, Sto. Tomas)

General Description

Some description in here would be nice.

 

Primary Threats

  • Overfishing (increasing fisherfolk competing for a limited fishery resource), illegal fishing (e.g. cyanide fishing, encroachment in municipal waters), marine pollution, siltation
  • Lax enforcement of coastal policies by volunteer groups such as Bantay Dagat (Sea Watch) due to limited pertinent know-how on coastal law enforcement and lack of floating assets or paraphernalia to carry out functions devolved to them 
  • Increase in tourism activities, which have affected water quality in the area; another concern is the grounding of ships 
  • Increasing volume of solid waste materials brought by tidal
  • Siltation due to mining activities in the adjacent municipality has affected quality of coral habitat; mine tailings has made the coastal waters murky thereby smothering the corals
  • Over-harvesting of lumber.

Indigenous Peoples

N/A

No IP in the information provided

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