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On 27 March 1990, Palawan was inscribed as Man and Biosphere Reserve (BR) of the
United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – Man
and the Biosphere Programme (MAB). After almost three decades, the MAB Advisory
Committee during its 29th Session on 12-15 June 2017 at the UNESCO Headquarters
in Paris officially recognized that Palawan BR meets the criteria of the
Statutory Framework of the World
Network of Biosphere Reserves, and has satisfactorily fulfilled three
complementary functions namely, (1) conservation function, to preserve genetic
resources, species, ecosystems, and landscapes, (2) development function, to
foster economic and human development, and (3) logistic support function, to
support demonstration projects, environmental education and training, and
research and monitoring related to local, national and global issues of
conservation and sustainable development. The decades since Palawan’s
recognition by the world body has undeniably proven itself as the model BR in
the country, with the rest of the world taking notes.


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The Palawan BR is covered by an assortment of national environmental laws and is
also specially governed by Republic Act 7611 or the Strategic Environmental Plan
(SEP) for Palawan Act. Under this law, the implementation of extractive and
critical undertakings such as mining and mineral development must satisfy the
sustainable development criteria of (i) ecological integrity, (ii) social
acceptability, and (iii) integrated approach. 


The Palawan Biosphere Reserve falls under the jurisdiction of national
environmental legislations. Additionally, Republic Act No. 7611, known as the
Strategic Environmental Plan (SEP) for Palawan Act, was specifically enacted for
the Province of Palawan. This Act establishes a comprehensive framework to
facilitate the sustainable development of Palawan while concurrently
safeguarding and improving its natural resources and vulnerable environment.
According to this law, activities with extractive and critical implications,
such as mining and mineral development, are required to adhere to the
sustainable development criteria of ecological integrity, social acceptability,
and an integrated approach.


The SEP relies on the Environmentally Critical Areas Network (ECAN), a graded
system of protection and development control dividing the whole province into
management zones according to predefined biophysical and socioeconomic criteria.
The designation of the ECAN zones is conformable to the biosphere reserve zoning
scheme as prescribed by the MAB Programme of UNESCO. The ECAN zones are
indicators of ecological hotspots, geologic hazards, high diversity areas, and
sustainable development activities.


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