EGIP Foundation | A Nonprofit Organization

Community Development

A direct response to the issues of rural poverty and forest degradation, the foundation supports community development. It's also an additional means of supporting tribal groups in meeting their basic requirements, to safeguard their ancestral forest as a source of revenue and a sustainable way of life.

Forest Protection and Management

To ensure that the forests and the species that lives there are preserved, the initiative enables regular foot patrols and surveillance of the forest regions by accredited, appointed, and trained forest guards, or "Bantay Bukid"

Sustainable Reforestation

To reforest and restore denuded lands while sustainably improving the livelihood of the community on the basis of payment for environmental services as an income opportunity and ensuring that the planted trees will grow and survive.

Biodiversity Conservation

To protect and strengthen biodiversity conservation using the integration of scientific methods and traditional ecological knowledge by monitoring economically, environmentally, and culturally important wildlife species and their habitat

Ecotourism

To provide alternative livelihood to the community in an eco-friendly manner in order to sustain their well-being and the project.

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SUPPORT

To support tribal communities in protecting their Ancestral Domains in terms of preservation of their tribal culture and rights and in terms of health and education through engaging third parties.

EMPOWERMENT

To empower communities in our program/project areas to become guardians to preserve the wealth of their ecosystem including reforesting and rehabilitating denuded parts of their land.

CONSERVATION

To support the conservation of the environment by protecting the biosphere including all life forms that have been created over millions of years of evolution.

trees planted as of Dec 2023

reforested hectares

communities supported

flagship species monitored

species of Beetles discovered

Forest Protection

The main objective of this component is to do environmental protection and strengthen biodiversity conservation using the integration of scientific methods and traditional ecological knowledge by monitoring those economically, environmentally, and culturally important wildlife species and their habitat.

Biodiversity

Facilitates regular monitoring and foot patrolling of trained, assigned, and accredited forest guards to make sure that the forests and its wildlife therein are protected, empowered them to practice and enforce their traditional laws and policies, and continue to put effort in integrating it into the mainstream laws and policies

Community Development

Support for community development is the foundations’ direct response to the linked problems of rural poverty and forest degradation. It is also another way of helping beneficiary communities in securing their daily needs so that they themselves can protect their ancestral forest/communities as it provides them sustainable livelihood or a source of income.

Food Security