Field Coverage

Forest Management in the Philippines

1 January 1981

Workers construct a "gabion" check dam made of rock and wire across an eroding gully in Upper Agno district. In 1972 two hundred inches of rain fell in 45 days here, badly damaging the gully which now threatens water supplies at lower altitudes.

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