KAINGIN-DESTROYED IPO

FOREST AND WATERSHED

RESERVATION
A feedback report for MWSS.
This is an independent feedback report of the field
investigation and assessment conducted by the
composite Team created pursuant to DENR Special
Order No. 466-2004
 AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT
INVESTIGATION & ASSESSMENT

• DENR Special Order No. 466-2004 dated

July 5, 2004 signed by Sec. Guzon

• MWSS Office Order No. 94-2004 dated

July 15, 2004 signed by MWSS
Adm.Orlando C. Hondrade
 COVERAGE OF
INVESTIGATION AND
ASSESSMENT
• Evaluation of the Usufruct areas which
were granted by DENR to its employees
•Determine the extent of the damaged
caused by Kaingin
•Survey and census of residents
•Other matters related thereto.
 BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE
MANAGEMENT OF IPO WATERSHED
Proclamation No. 391 dated April 30, 1968 by then
Pres. Ferdinand E.Marcos.

It provides Joint Administration by the Director

of Forestry and the NWSA General Manager
(now MWSS).

MWSS have been actively administering Ipo

Watershed Reservation in the security,
protection, and preservation through its then
Water Sources and Treatment Dept. (WSTD).
 The Advent of RA 8041(Water Crisis Act
of 1995) as implemented by E.O. 286.
• Privatized MWSS
• The obligations of MWSS towards the Ipo
watershed in the management, protection,
sustainable development and rehabilitation were
not clearly defined in the Concession Agreement
(CA) and/or assign the same to the
concessionaires.

• Thus, DENR took the cudgels of the management,

protection and rehabilitation of the Ipo forest and
watershed reservation since 1997.
 DENR’s MGT & PROJECTS IN IPO
WATERSHED RESERVATION

“USUFRUCT Project”
• Approved sometime in 2000 by then DENR
Secretary Cerrilles

• It was intended to encourage DENR

employees to plant fruit-bearing trees to the
open (pocket) spaces of the Ipo watershed
reservation.
 Feedback on the Impact of DENR’s
Usufruct and Reforestation Projects

• It was found out that the Usufruct project/program

was the major cause of the massive kaingin
activities in Ipo watershed reservation.
• It triggered the invasion of informal settler-
cultivators to the forest.
The kaingin areas has been transformed into some
kind of agricultural farm lots. Tillers Devoted it to
fruit-bearing trees plantation i.e., upland rice
farming, cornfields, root crops & vegetable
gardening (cash crops).
Areas that were hit by the massive Kaingin
within the Ipo forest and watershed
reservation.
• Anahaw area – 130 has. more or less;
• Sapang Catmon – 80 has. More or less;
• Mount Maranata – 150 has. More or less;
• Mount Balagbag - 400 has. More or less;
• Sapang Baliwag - 100 has. More or less;
• Sapang Anginan - 120 has. More or less;
• Sapang Munti - 150 has. More or less;
• Mataas na buhangin – 80 has. More or less; and
• many more
 OVERALL ESTIMATED OPEN AREA
INCLUDING THOSE DESTROYED BY
KAINGIN IN IPO WATERSHED
RESERVATION.
• Estimated Original Open – 15%
• Estimated Destroyed by kaingin - 55%

• Total Open Space 60-70%

of the 6,600 hectares of IPO reservation.
• A very alarming extent of damaged from
2002-2005.
Census of Residents

• Dumagat – 39 Families
• New Settlers- 103 Families
• Cultivators(ambulant) or the
kaingeros -105 individuals
Inventory of Boats operating at
Ipo watershed as means of
transport and fishing

Motorized – 25 Units
Not Motorized – 26 units
 The DENR’s RESOURCES FOR IPO

Watershed Protection
Only 4 warm bodies are assigned to conduct
needed foot patrol from DENR to forest of Ipo.
• DENR Forest guards do not conduct regular
patrol to the forest of the watershed.
•Patrol lacks necessary logistical needs, firearms,
equipment & communication system.
• Inadequate augmentation from MWSS, MWSI
and MWCI
 OTHER PROBLEMS
• Existence of logging syndicate. Allegedly with
participation of of some workers assigned at the
Ipo Dam. They are timber and charcoal traders.

• Increasing number of informal settlers-cultivator

residing the forest and the kaingin areas.
• Presence of gold/treasure hunting within the
watershed.
• Distribution or award of the lands of Ipo
watershed by NCIP, DENR and other govt
agencies.
IPO WATERSHED RESERVATION CAN
NOT WAIT ANOTHER YEAR OF
FOREST DESTRUCTION.
CURRENT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

• Sustainability: Protection, Rehabilitation and

Preservation

• Transfer the jurisdiction of Ipo forest and

watershed reservation to the stewardship of
MWSS, like the Angat watershed to Napocor,
the Forest of Subic to SBMA

• Review CADT. Land allocated to Dumagat and

now occupied by retired Military personnel at
Mt. Balagbag in Ipo watershed
 ACTION PLAN
PHASE I
* Creation of Ipo Watershed Task Force (MWSS, MWCI
& MWSI)
* Multi Stakeholder Partnership
* Information Campaign and consultation with settler-
cultivators of Ipo watershed
PHASE II
* Demolition, Evacuation and/or Resetlement
PHASE III
* Take-over on the Management of Ipo
forest and watershed reservation.
PHASE IV- REFORESTATION
TIMETABLE OF THE ACTION
PLAN
AND
THE
BUDGET REQUIREMENT FOR
THE CLEARING AND/OR
EVACUATION OF SETTLERS
OUT OF THE FOREST
WATERSHED PROTECTION
NEEDS
PERSONNEL AND LOGISTICAL NEEDS
30 Security Personnel (Ipo Patrol)

• COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (2-WAY

RADIOS)
• FIREARMS (M16 at least 6 units)
• Telescopes
• GPS Units
The Ipo Watershed Territorial Area

Ipo Kaingin areas

Dam

Usufruct
areas

Veterans at mount
Balagbag
 A 40 has upland rice,root crops and
vegetable farming at Sapang Baliwag
Remnants of huge dipterocarph trees at
Sapang Baliwag. About 9 has. wide
 Taken on aerial inspection. Mount
Maranat Area April 26, 2004. This is
for ground inspection by the Team.
A 9 hectare cornfield at Mataas na
Buhangin
n
 Fresh Cut Tree at Sapang Munti. The
members of the team over heard on 21 July
2004 at 12:00PM chain saw machine
cutting this tree. This is red narra.
Fresh Cut Tree in the midst of the forest at
Sapang Paco
 Invasion of settlers to Mount Balagbag
(Known as Veterans)There are 200 to 250
families now residing
A 15 has. Upland Rice and Vegetables
Farm at Sapang baliwag
A 15 hectare kaingin at Mataas na
Buhangin. Destroyed also were the
newly planted seedlings
17-hectare wide kaingin with dipterocarph
species trees razed to the ground.
A 30 has kaingin now a cornfield and
upland rice farm.
 A newly cut tree. Dipterocarph species
along ipo river. That’s the crown area of
the tree having 2-ft diameter.
A 30 has upland rice farm. Debris of
kaingin trees at sapang munti
 The top of mount maranat which is
covered by cogon and bamboo shrubs.
 1 meter diameter 38 ft long timber at
sapang anginan. A 10 hectare kaingin
Remnants of kaingin trees
 LET US SAVE WATERSHED
RESERVATIONS

THIS IS WHERE OUR

WATER IS COMING FROM

Thank You