Wild Side

Good news for Philippine forests!

From 1900 to 2015, the Philippines lost two-thirds of all its forests, its onceimpressive coverage of 21 million hectares reduced to a mere seven million hectares.

Despite a government ban on logging, the war against our trees rolls on. About 52,000 trees are felled daily for timber, charcoal, mining, slash-and-burn farming and land development. This intensifies soil erosion, flooding, river siltation, storm surges and droughts.

But there’s good news for our forests this 2022. As part of its Gforest movement, Gcash and its allies have pledged to plant over a million trees this year.