Partner organisation
Kalibo Save the Mangroves Association (KASAMA)
Community-led mangrove restoration association in Aklan; operates the 220-hectare Bakhawan Eco-Park, one of the country's most successful community mangrove projects.
The Kalibo Save the Mangroves Association (KASAMA) is a community-led mangrove planters' organisation based in Kalibo, Aklan. KASAMA established the Bakhawan Eco-Park in 1990 jointly with the local government, beginning with a 50-hectare planting on the silted Kalibo coastline. Thirty-five years on, the forest has expanded to approximately 220 hectares and is widely cited as the most successful community-led mangrove restoration in the Philippines. The forest absorbed the brunt of Typhoon Fengshen (2008) and Typhoon Haiyan (2013), sparing nearby villages from storm-surge damage that flattened communities elsewhere on Panay Island. KASAMA continues to expand the planted area, maintain monitoring transects, and host visiting researchers and schoolchildren. GreenSweep cards citing KASAMA reflect publicly documented work; funding flow requires a separate written partnership agreement.
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