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Rome — Filipino community leader Nida Collado last week won the 2024 Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award for her outstanding achievements and steadfast commitment to forest conservation and restoration and improving livelihoods.
The community in San Vicente, Palawan, in the western Philippines, faces challenges such as poor reforestation seedling survival rates, poaching, illegal wildlife trading and destructive farming practices. It is also recovering from the devastation of Typhoon Rai in December 2021. She educates farmers on the harms of slash-and-burn farming and organizes six women’s groups, two youth associations, and one men’s association to promote collective responsibility in forest and mangrove protection. FAO NewsNida innovatively championed a technique to restore denuded mangroves. Reforested mangrove pockets, which are picked by individual villages, create interconnected pockets managed by village communities.
“When we see our forests’ rich ecosystem, the mangroves are thriving, when we still smell fresh air, enjoy swimming in clean waters, and water sources are not scarce, those are priceless rewards.”
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