Pujaha Bay is fully planted with around two million mangroves. We have done our work here, but are already preparing the next planting areas. The decades of overexploitation of the mangroves is deplorable, but can no longer be changed.
Complaining won’t help. We must now work together to ensure that these negative interventions can no longer take place, but we must also all do something to promote reforestation. We can now see that we have been able to close many wounds with the reforestation. As the mangroves in the Philippines have been strictly protected for over two decades, there has been a welcome increase in the number of mangroves. It is therefore worthwhile being part of our reforestation efforts. Get involved.

For the reforestation of the mangroves, we are currently using eleven different species that have been identified by the team of Professor Lea Jimenez, Marine Science Research Center, Davao Oriental State University in Mati. Following this planting scheme and measuring the planting area to determine the number of seedlings, we set up our simple nurseries. The framework is bamboo and the roofs are made of palm fronds. These are all materials that we receive free of charge from the small communities. We only pay a few pesos to the people who put everything together, because it is usually the men from the fishing families who raise and plant the seedlings. Our program is designed so that your money benefits the project and does not flow into superfluous expenses.