Forest protection can also mean employment opportunity, especially for direct forest-dependents like our indigenous peoples (IPs) who consider the forest their ancestral domain.

The Dumagat or Dumagat Agta are IPs who reside in the province of Nueva Ecija, where Mt. Mingan in Gabaldon hosts the country’s pride and national bird, the Haring Ibon since its rediscovery in 2014 by Haribon

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