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2. CSC (Certificate of Stewardship Contract) covers 453

hectares, which are located in the following two baran-

gays: Aniniao 209 hectares and Mandapaton 244 hectares.

The remaining 5,042 hectares of forest land are under

Co-Management between the DENR and the LGU.

IFMA (Integrated Forest Management Agreement):

Mosser Environment Corporation has applied for IFMA

with the DENR, with an estimated area of 1,300 hectares

more or less in the forestal barangays of Elecia, Talaon,

Aya and Pitogo. This area has to be deducted from the

5,042 hectares under co-management with DENR.

Mosser Corporation is currently suspended by the DENR

for non-compliance of the requirements such as the

submission of its Comprehensive Development Plan to

the LGU and DENR.

Forest Land Use Plan (FLUP) Process

The FLUP, which had been prepared by the FLUP-

Technical Working Group in seven (7) months betweenJune to December 2003, was adopted on December 12,

2003 by the SB through resolution No. 171. The Local

a Libertad is a third (3rd) class municipality located in

he North of Negros Oriental, 1,047 km north of Duma-

uete City. The town has a total land area of 17,480 hect-res comprising 29 barangays, six (6) of which are coastal

arangays, while the rest are mountain settlements.

Narrow coastal plains that give way to rolling, hilly

ugged mountains and gentle slopes towards the interior

ortion characterize the town.

a Libertad has a total land area of 17,480 hectares popu-

ted by 42,461 (Est. 2011) in 29 barangays. The 5,595

ectares classified public forest lands constitute about 32

ercent of the municipal land area and are found in ten

0) mountain barangays where 39 percent of the munici-al population (around 16,560 persons in over 3,312

ouseholds) are settled, majority of them are corn farm-

rs on rainfed farms.

he municipality has one main and four sub-watersheds

hich service the needs of the four major irrigation

ystems and domestic water requirements of the munici-

ality.

orest Land in La Libertad (MAP)

f La Libertad's total land area, 5,595 hectares are classi-

ed as forest land, located in ten upland barangays. In

987, forest comprised around 960 hectares which is

7.20%, of the forestlands, 16 years later, in 2003 there

ere 123 hectares left, and planted 598 hectares with a

otal of 721 hectares of forest which represent only

80% of forest land.

f the forest land area of 5,595 hectares, 553 hectares areonsidered tenured or officially and legally allocated to

ndividuals and communities by virtue of various kinds of

enurial instruments issued by the Department of Envi-

onment and Natural Resources (DENR). Specifically for

a Libertad, the tenurial instruments presently issued are:

.  100 hectares are under CBFM (Community based

orest Management), located in the two barangays of

acuan and Bagtic.

      

Land Classification

 A&D

Forest land

CMA within the

forest land