Haribon work together with ‘Mangyans’for Sablayan

In 2012, the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) launched the Biodiversity Partnerships Project (BPP) that links private organizations with local governments to enable and facilitate policies on biodiversity conservation at the municipal and national levels.

One partner, which has been coordinating with BMB since then is the Haribon Foundation, which is the responsible partner (RP) of the Mt. Siburan Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) and Important Bird Area (IBA) of Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, of which about 5,000- hectare is an ancestral domain of the Mangyan tribe who co-exist with the globally threatened Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis).