Zubiri says Bukidnon reforestation effort a failure, wants it stopped – 
By Walter I. Balane, MindaNews.com
January 10, 2012

 MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/9 January) – The reforestation efforts of the Bukidnon Forest Inc. (previously the Bukidnon Industrial Tree Plantation Project or BIPP) was allegedly unsuccessful, so its operations have to be stopped, Bukidnon Vice Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri Jr. said

Zubiri said at the Monday convocation program of the provincial government Monday that BFI must be asked to stop operating ahead of the expiration of its 25-year industrial forest management agreement (IFMA) in 2016.

BFI is a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) under the National Resources Development Corporation. As BIPP, it was funded by the national government of New Zealand until it was terminated as a foreign-assisted project of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in 1998.

Zubiri said the 38,000-hectare industrial tree plantation project’s area should instead be given to the indigenous people who have applied for Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title over it.

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