The Municipality of Adams, Ilocos Norte, Northeastern portion of Luzon, Philippines. This 30,000+/- hectares has fewer than 500 families and approximately 10,000 hectares of primary, large second growth and other forests that need preservation. The local residents are very much in favor of preserving the forests they call home and are adopting the IVAFMS Foundation's sustainable agroforestry methods to rehabilitate deforested areas. Every night a small truck or two will slip into the area from the outside and truck off a log of precious, endangered hardwood. The locals catch a few. The central point is that the illegal logging is not from within, it is from the outside. These wonderful indigenous people need our help to preserve this beautiful and bountiful forest with pristine rivers and streams from becoming another desert with polluted rivers. (Please double click on the first photo to start the slide show.)
