KASTILYONG BATO OLO OLO MANGROVE AND FOREST ECO PARK IN LOBO BATANGAS I PAPA SHE

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The entrance to the Olo-olo Mangrove Forest and Ecopark in Barangay Olo-olo, Lobo, Batangas.
BY this time of the year, a hundred trees in this coastal community would have been cut down, repainted, decorated and sold as Christmas trees to give joy to homes in downtown Lobo, a small town in Batangas province.
The mangrove tree species, locally called palapat, is popular among children in this coastal barangay called Olo-olo because they make beautiful Christmas trees, the demand for which rises during the so-called “ber” months leading up to Christmas.
Olo-olo Mangrove Forest and EcoPark: A green space in small Batangas town
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Olo-olo Mangrove Forest and EcoPark: A green space in small Batangas town
17 DECEMBER 2018Share:
Olo-olo Mangrove Forest and EcoPark: A green space in small Batangas town
The entrance to the Olo-olo Mangrove Forest and Ecopark in Barangay Olo-olo, Lobo, Batangas.
BY this time of the year, a hundred trees in this coastal community would have been cut down, repainted, decorated and sold as Christmas trees to give joy to homes in downtown Lobo, a small town in Batangas province.
The mangrove tree species, locally called palapat, is popular among children in this coastal barangay called Olo-olo because they make beautiful Christmas trees, the demand for which rises during the so-called “ber” months leading up to Christmas.
Ronnie P. Gamboa, chairman of the Olo-olo Seaside Worker Association (Oswa), shows oysters in early stage. It takes at least three months before the oysters can be harvested.
“By October and November, children here would have been busy cutting palapat to make Christmas trees. It’s a project every year for young children here,” said Ronnie P. Gamboa, chairman of the Olo-olo Seaside Worker Association (Oswa).
Palapat is also commonly used as construction material. Its trunk and branches make a good wooden post and kilo or beam of a nipa hut, Gamboa said in Filipino.
Another mangrove species, pipisik to local folks, is used as kumpay, the wood carved to fit the back of a carabao to pull a wooden cart behind it.
The pipisik is harvested by local folks for various purposes. The leaves are fed to carabaos, cows and small ruminants. The trunk and branch are used to make charcoal, a common livelihood in the barangay.
Food source
GAMBOA told the BusinessMirror in a recent interview that they used to believe the mangrove forest in their area is so thick that cutting and harvesting pipisik and palapat would last forever and would never affect their food source.
However, owing to cutting for a long time, the thick mangrove forest eventually shrunk and the native fish species, mud crabs and seashells became scarce until, finally, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) stepped into the picture.
“When the DENR came and told us to stop [cutting trees], we all stopped. Since then, there was no more cutting, even for Christmas,” he said.
Members of the Oswa show freshly picked mud crabs and shellfish they cook for visitors of the Olo-olo Mangrove Forest and Ecopark.
He said the people in the small community are currently slowly feeling the positive impact of maintaining a healthy environment.
Their 21-hectare patch of green fronting the Verde Island Passage that surrounds an estuary is again teeming with assorted species of native fish, mud crab and shellfish.
“You’ll never go hungry with this abundance,” he said, referring to the mangrove forest. “See those holes in the sand? There are mud crabs inside those holes,” Gamboa boasts.
Batangas ICM
BATANGAS has been implementing integrated coastal management (ICM) as early as the mid-1990s.
In 2004, as a demonstration site of the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (Pemsea), the implementation of various ICM projects intensified.
The demonstration project in Batangas resulted in the development and implementation of a Strategic Environmental Management Plan consisting of six major action areas: legal and institutional mechanisms, integrated policy and planning systems, integrated management systems and technical interventions, management and technical skills improvement, information base improvement and sustainable financing development.
In 2009 the DENR urged residents of Barangay Olo-olo to stop harvesting mangroves to prevent further environmental damage in the coastal communities in Batangas.
Their job then was to protect the mangrove forest and the estuary against various threats, particularly harvesting of mangrove trees, illegal fishing and use of destructive fishing methods, and hunting wildlife, including native birds that thrive in the

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