Ligao City holds 3-day workshop on Forest Land Use Planning

Congressman Fernando V. Gonzalez talks before the participants of the 3-day workshop on forest land use planning.

The City Government of Ligao in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, 3rd Congressional District of Albay, and Deutsche Geselschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, is currently holding a three-day workshop on Forest Land Use Planning on 1 July 2015 and will continue through 3 July 2015. Officials from different barangays and the local government were among the stakeholders in the workshop.

The government conducts forest land use planning to properly allocate and manage forest and forestlands (FFL) as natural resources. Likewise, the planning aims to balance the production activities and protection of forest and conservation of biodiversity. The Forest Land Use Plan (FLUP), an expected output from the workshop, shall be integrated in the LGU’s Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUP) [1].

OIC-CENR Officer Marlon S. Francia of DENR Regional Office V said that the goal of forest land use planning is to preserve the forest and biodiversity, and attain a sustainable economic growth despite the increase in human population, land conversion, and globalization.

Ligao City Mayor Patricia Gonzalez-Alsua seeks the cooperation of the stakeholders to actively participate throughout the three-day workshop as this will ease the flow of planning and production of the mandated FLUP.

[1] FMB Technical Bulletin No. 2 Forest Land Use Planning. Forest Management Bureau, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, FMB Building, Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines. April 2014

Written by Lala Peñafiel