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Mangrove forest cover in the Philippines has substantially declined in recent years primarily due to logging and conversion to fish ponds, and, more recently, to pollution and reclamation. From about 500,000 ha in the 1920s, only about 120,500 ha remained in 1994 (Forest Management Bureau 1996). To date fish ponds cover about 289,000 ha, with 80-90% in areas once covered with mangroves (de Leon and White 1997). Despite a national law (Presidential Proclamation No. 2152 of 29 December 1981) prohibiting the cutting of mangroves and a government ban (Department of Environment and Natural Resources Administrative Order No 15 s1990) on further conversion of mangroves to fish ponds, the reduction of mangroves continued at a rate of about 3,000 ha-1 yr-1 or 2.4% yr-1 from 1990 to 1994 (Environmental Management Bureau 1996).
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de Leon, R.O.D., White, A.T. (1999). Mangrove Rehabilitation in the Philippines. In: Streever, W. (eds) An International Perspective on Wetland Rehabilitation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4683-8_4
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