Sustainable Solutions for the Cordillera Mountains

Cordillera Conservation Trust

Tignayan para iti Konserbasyon ti Kordilyera

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E-mail: Cordillera.conservation.trust@gmail.com

The Cordillera Conservation Trust

Poverty and human health problems are symptoms of an ailing environment. The Cordillera Region is the source of life for most of the Northern Luzon, it’s rivers feed the hectares of farm land that feed a majority of this nation’s population and within it’s walls of rock live communities whose culture speaks of a time long past and a proud and noble ancestry.  Yet this noble heritage of the mountain region is slowly withdrawing its graces from its people and from those that benefit below these towers. The forests no longer speak and the waters slowly choked by silt and pollution and each year crystal droplets flow in ever smaller amounts starving the farms that rely on this constant supply of life from the mountains above.

 

No longer can the forests and rivers sustain local livelihoods and continued pollution and degradation affects the ecosystems capacity to provide clean air and water and increases community’s vulnerability to natural disasters. This degradation has also in recent years been the root source of conflicts for many villages found within the Cordillera Mountains.

 

                 The Cordillera Conservation Trust seeks to provide relevant practical and sustainable solutions to environmental problems arising in the Cordillera region that seek to undermine the continued ecological services that the mountain region provides for its people. Working in partnership with the different local communities we develop practical and appropriate solutions to the environmental problems now confronting the Cordillera Region.

 

The Cordillera Conservation Trust aims to develop alternatives to current unsustainable practices that now plague the mountain regions environment and people.  By improving the natural environment and promoting sustainable utilization of the local resources we also ensure that the primary source of local capital, the environment, is kept in a form that will continuously provide its services for the local communities reducing the incidence of rural poverty, environmental conflicts, and health hazards arising from degraded environmental conditions.

 

We believe that we can develop solutions from local community ideas and knowledge as well as integrate our own specializations in modern sustainable development strategies to promote development in the region that is in line with its unique ecological and cultural characteristics.

 

Ifugao Child Fishing in one of the mountain’s pristine rivers

Tignayan para iti Konserbasyon ti Kordilyera inc.

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