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INSIDE THE WORLD OF THE
MANGYAN Text & photos by Joel C. Paredes
‘T
HIS is my home,” remarked a smiling Yvis Leyto on reaching the communal village of the Alangan Mangyan, secluded in the upland forest near Sablayan, a coastal town in Occidental Mindoro that stretches to the Apo Reef National Park, which protects the second largest contiguous coral reef in the world. »A2 THE Mangyans have learned to survive through the traditional charcoal making, kaingin farming and the planting of kamoteng kahoy and kamoteng baging for food.
“We are a proud people. We have known how to survive in any calamity because we have the forest.”
PESO EXCHANGE RATES n US 56.7020 n JAPAN 0.3888 n UK 71.4956 n HK 7.2318 n CHINA 7.7898 n SINGAPORE 41.8650 n AUSTRALIA 36.3857 n EU 61.3232 n KOREA 0.0427 n SAUDI ARABIA 15.1149 Source: BSP (August 25, 2023)