FOREST MANAGEMENT

BUREAU

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 VISION

A forest that creates wealth for our nation as the cradle of life, nurtured by
our people’s aspiration for a just, humane and progressive society guided by
the ideals of our ancestors and blessings of God Almighty.

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 MISSION

Advancing the cause of sustainable management of forest resources

through a dynamic government forest service organization composed
of competent public servants
 MANDATES
The Forest Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and
Natural Resources provides technical guidance to the central and field offices
for the effective protection, development, and conservation of forestlands and
watersheds. It shall recommend policies and programs towards the
achievement of sustainable forest management, anchored on science and
principles of good forest governance.

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 GUIDING PRINCIPLES IN FOREST
MANAGEMENT
a. Forestlands and resources shall be managed on sustainable basis in order to
meet the needs of present and future generations for forest products and
other vital ecological services;
b. Access to and use of forest lands and resources for production, livelihood, or
other services are to be equitably granted by the State, consistent with the
principles of social equity and environmental justice;
c. The management of forestlands and resources shall be a shared
responsibility among all stakeholders consistent with the rule of law and
international commitments, and the principles of transparency,
accountability and public participation.
4 SHARED GLOBAL OBJECTIVES ON
FORESTS
1. Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through the sustainable forests
management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation,
and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation
2. Enhance forest-based economic, social and environmental benefits, including by
improving the livelihood of forest-dependent people
3. Increase significantly area of protected forests worldwide and other areas of
sustainably managed forests as well as the proportion of forest products from
sustainably managed forests
4. Reverse the decline in official development assistance for sustainable forest
management and mobilize significantly increased ,new and additional financial
resources from all sources for the implementation of sustainable forest
management
 FMB ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
Under the Approved Rationalization Plan (E.O. No. 366)

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

FOREST POLICY, PLANNING FOREST RESOURCES FOREST RESOURCES FOREST INVESTMENT

& KNOWLEDGE CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
MANAGEMENT DIVISION DIVISION DIVISION DIVISION

Forest Policy Section Environmental Forest Land Use Forest Investment

Forestry Section Allocation Section Packaging Section
Knowledge &
Information System Sec.
Reforestation & Community Forestry Forest Investment
Forest Economics Rehabilitation Section Section Promotion Section
Section
Forest Protection Corporate & Industrial Forestry Partnership
Forestry Plans & Forestry Section Development Section
Section
Standards Section

Forest Geospatial Data Watershed Ecosystem Forest Resource-Use Forest Revenue

Infrastructure Section Management Section & Allocation Section Development Section
 CONSTITUTIONAL, LEGAL AND
POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR FOREST
GOVERNANCE

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THE 1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION

Article II, Section 16

“The state shall protect and advance the right of the
people to a balanced and healthful ecology in
accordance with the rhythm and harmony of nature.”
Article XII, Section 2:

“All lands of the public domain, water, minerals, coals,

petroleum and other mineral oils, all forms of potential
energy, fisheries, forests and other natural resources are
owned by the State. The exploration, development and
utilization of natural resources shall be under the full
control and supervision of the state.”

“The State may directly undertake such activities, or it may

enter into co-production, joint venture, or production-
sharing agreements with Filipino citizens, or corporations or
associations at least 60% of whose capital is owned by such
citizens.”

“Such agreements may be for a period of 25 years,

renewable for not more than 25 years and under such
terms and conditions as may be provided by law.”
 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 705 (1975)
 It remains to be the basic forestry law governing forests in the
Philippines.

 It provides for a system of land classification; and

 Basis for utilization and management (including reforestation and

forest protection) based on sustained use management, and
penalties for illegal logging and other forms of forest degradation.

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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 705 (1975)

 PD 705 provides the foundation for good forest rehabilitation and

governance but is now wanting given the requirements of current
realities.

Efforts to have a new national forestry law have been on-going

since 1992 but have been hampered by the debate on
whether or not to continue commercial logging in the
remaining natural forests.

Notwithstanding this constraint, the focus on utilization has

somehow been counter balanced by Executive Orders.
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 263 (1995)

Adopting the Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) as

the National Strategy Towards Sustainable Management of the
Forests in the Country.
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 23 (2011)

Declaring a moratorium on the cutting and harvesting of

timber in natural and residual forests nationwide
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 26 (2011)

Ordering the implementation of the National Greening Program

(NGP) as a government’s priority to rehabilitate degraded and
denuded forestlands of the country
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 193 (2015)

Expanding the coverage of the National Greening Program (NGP)

to cover all the remaining unproductive, denuded and degraded
forestlands and its period of implementation from 2016 to 2028
in accordance with the updated Master Plan for Forestry
Development .
FORESTRY FACTS AND FIGURES
 Total Area of the Philippines ~ 29,987,008 hectares
Source: NAMRIA as presented in the DENR Execom

15,792,333 14,194,675
hectares hectares
(53%) (47%)

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 Forest cover trends in the Philippines
18 16.9
16 14.9 1.365 Million hectares
FOREST COVER (MILLION HECTARES)

accomplishment of NGP
14
from 2011-2015
11.6
12

10
8.205
8
7.4 7.2 6.84
6

0
1934 1950 1965 1980 2003 2010 2015
YEAR

 Forest cover decreased by 328,682 ha i.e. from 7,168,400 ha in 2003 to 6,839,718

ha in 2010 or an ANNUAL FOREST COVER LOSS of 46,954 ha.
 Pantabangan-Carranglan Watershed Forest Reserve

There are 146 proclaimed watershed forest

reserves in the country with an aggregate area of
2.7 million hectares.
 FOREST RESOURCE UTILIZATION
TENURE INSTRUMENT AREA COVERED
NUMBER
(Issued as of 2015) (hectares)
Community-Based Forest Management
Agreement (CBFMA)
1,884 1,615,598
Integrated Forest Management
Agreement (IFMA)
129 959,604
Socialized Industrial Forest
Management Agreements (SIFMA)
1,523 32,217
Forest Land Grazing Management
Agreement (FLGMA)
148 35,243
Forest Land Use Agreement (FLAg) 32 3,516
Forest Land Use Agreement for Tourism
Purposes (FLAgT)
31 297
TOTAL 3,747 2,646,475
 FOREIGN TRADE
The total forest-based products exports for 2015
amounted to $3.156 Billion contributing 5.30% to the
total exports of the country.
 PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

OUR MISSION

 Poverty Reduction
 Food Security
 Environmental Stability
 Biodiversity Conservation
 Climate Change Mitigation
& Adaptation
 FOREST PROTECTION PROGRAM

 The ultimate goal is to effectively protect the country’s forests from

further destruction and degradation by choosing varied menu of
strategies and menu of activities as options for wherever and whenever
are applicable to the DENR Field Offices in protecting our forest and
forestland and established NGP plantations.

 Institutionalization of the LAWIN Forest and Biodiversity Protection

System; and Forestry 101
 FORESTLAND MANAGEMENT PROJECT [FMP]

 10-year DENR-JICA Project that

Upper Magat &
aims to strengthen forestland Cagayan River Basin
Pampanga River
management in three (3) critical Basin
river basins through the
implementation of collaborative
and comprehensive Community-
based Forest Management
Jalaur River
strategies. Basin
 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT [FMP]
1. Rehabilitate degraded forestlands in three (3) critical river basins
(Upper Magat & Cagayan, Upper Pampanga and Jalaur);

2. Improve forest conservation and socio-economic conditions of

affected communities;

3. Contribute to disaster risk mitigation efforts in vulnerable areas;

and
 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT [FMP]

4. To strengthen forestland management through Community Based

Forest Management strategy:
 Empowering Peoples’ Organizations;
 Securing Land Tenure rights;
 Enterprise development for food security and income; and
 Development, conservation, protection, and sustainable use of
forestlands resources.
 BUDGET OF THE PROJECT [FMP]
(In Million Pesos)
GOP
GOP
1,342.46 LP
(23%)

LP
4,528.18
(77%)

Total Project Cost: PhP 5,870.64 Million

 Climate
Change
Fund (CCF)

INTEGRATED NATURAL RESOURCES &

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT
(INREMP)

 It’s a 7-Year Project (2013-2020) with funding support from Asian Devt
Bank (ADB), International Fund for Agricultural Devt (IFAD), Global
Environmental Fund (GEF), Climate Change Fund (CCF), Govt of the
Phil. (GOP) & LGUs
 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT (INREMP)

 INREMP seeks to address unsustainable Upper Chico River

Basin
management practices in four (4) River Basins in
23 Watersheds

 Reduce and reverse degradation of watersheds and

associated environmental services caused by forest
Wahig-
denudation and unsustainable farming practices; Inabanga
and River Basin

 Provide incentives to local communities, LGUs and

Lake Lanao
the DENR for improving natural resource Basin
management by generating sufficient and tangible Upper Bukidnon
economic benefits River Basin
 PROJECT COST (INREMP)
(Million)
$15.31 M $8.49 M
NG LGUs Amt. (M $) $6.42 M
PhP627.71 M PhP348.09) Communities
PhP263.22
$1.41 M
CCF
PhP57.81

$2.5 M
(GEF)
PhP102.5

$20 M
(IFAD)
PhP820 M
$100 M
(ADB)
PhP4,100 M

SOURCE & AMOUNT

CURRENCY Beneficiaries (in TOTAL

ADB IFAD CCF GEF GOP LGUs
kind)
$ in Million 100 20 1.4 2.5 15.31 8.49 6.42 154.12
PhP in Million 4,100 820 57 103 628 348 263 6,319

Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project

 BIODIVERSITY & WATERSHED IMPROVED FOR
STRONGER ECONOMY & ECOSYSTEM
RESILIENCE (B+WISER)

Project funded by the USAID & implemented in collaboration with DENR-

FMB. It aims to:

 Conserve biodiversity in forest areas;

 Reduce forest degradation in targeted priority watersheds;
 Build capacity to conserve biodiversity, manage forests, and support low
emissions development; and,
 Contribute to disaster risk reduction at the subnational level.
BIODIVERSITY & WATERSHED IMPROVED FOR
STRONGER ECONOMY & ECOSYSTEM
RESILIENCE (B+WISER)
It covers seven priority protected areas/watersheds:
 Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park (Region 2);
 Kaliwa-Upper Marikina Watersheds (Region 4a);
 Naujan Lake National Park (Region 4b);
 Quinali "A" Watershed (Region 5);
 Bago Watershed Forest Reserve (Region 6);
 Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park (Region 10);
 Mt. Apo Natural Park (Region 11/12).
 NATIONAL REDD PLUS SYSTEM
 It aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation and to achieve co-benefits (biodiversity
conservation and livelihood improvements) with the use of national
framework, based on internationally recognized ecological and
social safeguards.

Sites: Eastern Samar, Davao Oriental, Albay

 INTERNATIONAL/UN BODIES
UNFF UNFCCC ITTO COFO
REGIONAL/ASIA PACIFIC
APFC APEC-EGILAT APFNet
REGIONAL/ASEAN
AMAF ASOF AFoCo
ASEAN Transboundary Haze Pollution (under ASOEN)

UNFF (UN Forum on Forests) APFNet (Asia Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Mgt)
UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) AMAF (ASEAN Ministerial Mtg on Agriculture & Forestry)
ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organization) ASOF (ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry)
COFO (Committee on Forestry) AFoCo (ASEAN & ROK Forest Cooperation)
APFC (Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission)
APEC-EGILAT (Asia Pacific Econ. Cooperation-Experts Group on Illegal Logging and Trade)
 Sustain the gain of the National Greening Program

 Increase forest cover and rebuild the forest resources base

 Rehabilitation of the remaining degraded forestland
 Increase capacity of forest to provide ecosystem services for water,
biodiversity, reduce erosion and carbon sequestration
 Strengthen forest governance
 Improve forest protection on the ground through the use of
advance technology (GIS, Remote Sensing)
 Improve/Strengthen field level forestry (PENRO, CENRO)
 Capacity building on forest protection and law enforcement
 Strengthen coordination with the AFP, PNP and other law
enforcement agencies
 Encourage and enable investment in large scale forest
plantation, agroforestry, and for energy purposes
 Create and enabling environment for investment
 Policy consistency and logical regulation
 Strong forest governance and minimal corruption
 Secure property rights
 Reduce bureaucratic red tape
 Encourage re-tooling of the wood industry
 Secondary processing and remanufacturing facilities
 Development of new products other than wood (bamboo, rattan, nipa)
 Investment in research and development
 Tree improvement program
 Clonal nursery
 Forest to ensure continuous delivery of various
ecosystem services
 Provisioning services (food, timber, NTFP, medicine, resin,
latex)
 Regulating services (soil and water conservation, carbon
sequestration, clean air)
 Cultural services (aesthetic value, ecotourism, educational)
 Institutional readiness with emerging legal framework
 REDD+ and forest carbon accounting

 Forest certification

 National Forest Monitoring Program/System

 National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (Land use, land use change
and forestry )
 Institutional readiness with emerging legal framework
 Paris Agreement (Intended Nationally Determined Contribution – INDC)
 The Philippines intends to undertake GHG (CO2e) emissions reduction
of about 70% by 2030 relative to its BAU scenario of 2000-2030

 UN Forum on Forests (UNFF)

 UNFF11 extends the International Agreement on Forest (IAF) to Year
2030, upgrades the UNFF Facilitative Process to the UNFF Global
Forest Financing Facilitation Network & agrees to develop a Strategic
Plan for IAF (2017-2030)
1

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR THE DELINEATION OF THE
SPECIFIC FOREST LIMITS OF THE PUBLIC
DOMAIN AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
SENATE BILL No. 2983
 LEGAL BASES
[Classification and Survey of All Lands of the Public Domain]

 1987 - Section 4, Article XII Philippine Constitution - Congress shall, as soon as

possible, determine, by law, the specific limits of forestlands and national parks,
marking clearly their boundaries on the ground. Thereafter, such forestlands and
national parks shall be conserved and may not be increased nor diminished, except by
law.

 1975 - Section 17, PD 705 - provides that boundaries between permanent forests and
alienable and disposable lands shall be clearly marked and maintained on the ground.

 2004 – Section 21, Executive Order No. 318 - state forestlands shall be identified,
classified and delineated/demarcated on the ground and shall constitute the
permanent forest estate unless otherwise stipulated by Congress.
SEC. 6. Creation of the National Review and Evaluation Committee

In recognition of the Constitutional mandate as embodied in Section

4, Article XII thereof, and in view of the urgent need to establishment
the permanent limits of the forest lands of the country, a National
Review and Evaluation Committee is hereby created to process,
evaluate and approve all completed assessment and delineation
reports referred to in the immediately preceding Section. The
Committee, in its evaluation and approval of the said reports, shall
adhere strictly to existing established laws, policies, rules,
regulations and guidelines pertinent thereto.
 COMPOSITION OF THE NATIONAL REVIEW AND EVALUATION
COMMITTEE
 Chairman – DENR Secretary
 Vice Chairman – NEDA Socioeconomic Planning Secretary & Director
General
 Members
o DILG Secretary
o DA Secretary
o DAR Secretary
o HUDCC Chairman
o NCIP Chairman
o President , League of Provinces of the Philippines
Upon approval of the assessment and delineation
reports as herein specified, the Committee shall
submit the same to Congress which shall thereafter
form part of its official records. The assessment and
delineation reports approved by the Committee
shall be adopted as constituting the final
boundaries of the forest lands covered by the report.
SEC. 12. Creation of an Adjudication Board to Resolve
Controversies on Land Classification Conflicts

A Land Classification Conflict Adjudication Board, herein

referred to as the Board, is hereby created to resolve
controversies arising from land classification as a result of
the delimitation of forest lands pursuant to this Act
 COMPOSITION OF THE ADJUDICATION BOARD

 Chairman – DOJ Secretary

 Members
o LRA Administrator
o Representative from Integrated Bar of the Philippines
o Representative from a reputed College of Forestry
o Representative from the private sector
 SEC. 13. Powers and Functions of the Adjudication Board

 Resolve controversies arising from land classification as a result of

delimitation of forest lands pursuant to this Act;
 Summon witnesses, administer oaths, take testimony & require
submission of reports;
 Compel production of books and documents and answers to
interrogatoties; and
 Issue subpoena duces tecum, writs of possessions, writ of execution;
and other writs to enforce its orders and decisions
 ACCOMPLISHMENT

 *Delineated 88,665.95 km in 81
provinces & 2 cities

* Including newly created Davao Occidental province

2 SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
(SFM) ACT
 The passage of the law on Sustainable Forest Management
shall ensure that the forests and forestlands are scientifically
managed through a holistic management approach that put
emphasis good governance, responsibility, and accountability
founded on a strong and sustained organizational framework
for the promotion of social justice and for the common good of
the present and future generations.
THANK YOU!

Forest Management Bureau

forestry.denr.gov.ph