#phillippines

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Indigenous rainforestation

Indigenous communities in the Philippines’ Mt. Kalatungan protected area have since 2021 carried out a tree-planting campaign to restore native vegetation lost to decades of commercial logging and agriculture.

Known as rainforestation, it aims to rejuvenate vital ecosystem services like flood mitigation, which benefits urban areas downstream, while also providing incentives for the communities driving the restoration.

The rainforestation program is led by community groups, making use of their knowledge of native plants, and marks a shift from the government’s decades-long, centrally managed reforestation efforts that relied on planting nonnative species.

A strong earthquake struck the southern Philippines at 07:37 local time (23:37 GMT) 19:37 EDT

Several countries in the region, including the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan, have issued tsunami warnings

The quake had a magnitude of 7.0 and a depth of 10km, says the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology

But initial estimates from other agencies vary - it was 7.8 magnitude and 50km deep says the German Research Centre for Geosciences, while the US Geological Survey says it was 7.8 magnitude and 35km deep

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr says he has "directed all relevant government agencies to act immediately", urging people to move to higher ground

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