In the Philippines, the Ikaw Ako Foundation's main focus is on tropical forest regeneration, working to improve and resolve environmental issues and contribute to improving the quality of life for residents.
Over the past 28 years, the organization has planted 2.3 million mangrove trees on the islands of Negros and Bohol. The organization's activities have expanded to include improving living environments, including environmental education, ecotourism, safe water supplies, and waste reduction. Recently, the organization has been working hard to create a system for generating carbon credits to mitigate climate change.
As countries work to reduce CO2 emissions toward the global goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, mangroves are attracting a lot of attention as a natural offset (Blue Carbon). About three-quarters of the mangrove forests in the Philippines have already been lost, and their restoration is an urgent issue from the perspective of biodiversity conservation, coastal disaster prevention, and inshore fishing. Many local residents are fishermen and are eager to restore a healthy ecosystem. The government also prioritizes mangrove restoration as part of national land conservation and climate change measures.
Ikaw Ako Foundation's activities are an effort to make it possible to generate carbon credits from mangrove plantations, which was previously difficult to achieve due to the cost and labor involved, by working with trusted partner companies and utilizing the latest satellite technology and AI analysis.
