Since 2019, SFWD had sent copies of board resolutions asking the NCIP to exclude the 1,658-hectare Mt. Magdiwata Watershed and Forest Reserve from any CADT application.

Source: https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2023/02/mining-firm-helping-manobo-clan-in-cadt-bid-in-agusan-sur-water-utility-exec/

The Kaliwa River Forest Reserve is named after its geographic location being on the left side of watersheds situated in Luzon’s northeastern seaboard and part of the Sierra Madre Mountain range.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1731169/kaliwa-river-forest-and-wildlife-sanctuary-proposal-gets-boost

They saw the importance of the area and the culture aspects, and they set aside this area, took it out of the Ka’u Forest Reserve, and then the historical aspects of this place with the canoes.

Source: https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2023/05/10/video-koa-canoe-forest-in-kapapala-planned/