Title
Mount Iglit-Baco National Park Establishment
Law
Republic Act No. 6148
Decision Date
Nov 9, 1970
Republic Act No. 6148 declares Mount Iglit, Mount Baco, and adjoining areas in Mindoro as a National Park, with regulations to protect and conserve its natural resources and wildlife.

Survey, Delimitation, and Protection Rules

  • Section 2 authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources to conduct a survey to delimit the actual metes and bounds of the Park described in Section 1.
  • Section 2 requires, upon recommendation of the Parks and Wildlife Commission, the promulgation of rules and regulations to prohibit the sale, leasing, exploitation, or other disposition of any area within the park except as otherwise authorized in Section 2.
  • Section 2 allows an exception: an area of the Park not exceeding one thousand (1,000) hectares may be allocated for settlement by the Batangan tribe, under the supervision of the PANAMIN Foundation.
  • Section 2 further provides that the prohibitions and allocation rules operate without prejudice to any license or permit granted, or any contractual arrangement entered into with the Philippine Wildlife Conservation Foundation, for use of portions or areas of the Park necessary to implement a wildlife conservation and management program for the Tamaraw and other wildlife species found there.

Administration and Executive Supervision

  • Section 3 places the Park under the immediate direction and administration of the Parks and Wildlife Commission.
  • Section 3 subjects the Park to the general executive control and supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
  • Section 3 preserves the effects of licenses, permits, or contractual arrangements allowed under Section 2.

Authorized Funding for Park Development

  • Section 4 authorizes the appropriation of One million pesos (P1,000,000.00) from any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
  • Section 4 directs the appropriation to cover, for any or all of the following:
    • Conduct of ground or aerial surveys or photogrammetric studies, including the preparation of photo-mosaics, and including demographic studies.
    • Preparation of plans and programs for land, water, forest, range, vegetation, and environmental management and development.
    • Identification, inventory, evaluation, and classification of wild animals and plants found in the Park according to internationally accepted taxonomic standards.
    • Conduct of zoological, biological, botanical, and other scientific and technical studies necessary for a rational wildlife conservation and management program.
    • Selection, design, establishment, or preservation of wildlife refuges, reserves, sanctuaries, and other sites and facilities for protection, restocking, propagation, and perpetuation of suitable wildlife species found in the Park.
    • Improvement and beautification of the Park, and construction of necessary facilities for developing the Park into a tourist resort area.

Research Grants and Wildlife Studies

  • Section 5 authorizes the National Science Development Board to issue a grant from the Science Fund created pursuant to Republic Act Numbered Fifty-Lour hundred and forty-eight to the Parks and Wildlife Commission and/or the Philippine Wildlife Conservation Foundation.
  • Section 5 sets the grant level at not less than Three hundred thousand pesos (P300,000.00) a year.
  • The grant must be for:
    • Establishment and maintenance of a research center.
    • Conduct of scientific studies on wildlife conservation and management within or for the Park.
  • Section 5 authorizes the grant to support the hiring or retention of qualified researchers and technicians to collect, analyze, and evaluate data or information obtained from research in the Park.

Repeal of Inconsistent Laws

  • Section 6 repeals all Acts, parts of Acts, rules, and regulations inconsistent with this Act.

Effectivity

  • Section 7 provides that this Act takes effect upon its approval.
  • The Act was approved on November 9, 1970.

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