Every year, the Philippines loses approximately 47,000 hectares of forest cover, and will continue to lose more due to the irresponsible widespread logging and mining activities happening all over the country, making the country one of the most severely deforested countries in the Southeast Asia, and perhaps in the world.

Based on a study, titled “Decline of the Philippine Forest,” by the Institute of Environmental Science for Social Change, the country has about 21 million hectares of forest cover, covering 70 percent of the total land area, in 1900s. Four decades later, the deforestation caught on that, by 1999, the Philippines only has 5.5 million hectares, with only 800,000 hectares of this was primary forest.

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