Environmental Professionals Episode 26: Rivah Shane P. LLano

John Lieber Ecology/ Planning - Jungle Capital (Environmental Professionals and Nature’s Pulse)

Happy to introduce Episode 26 of Environmental Professionals. This episode is about Forestry in the Philippines. Rivah Shane P. LLano is from Pilar, Cebu, Philippines. She a licensed forester. She took my Bachelor’s degree in Forestry at Visayas State University, Baybay City, Leyte. She graduated last June 2019 with Latin Honor. She worked as a Forester and a Geographic Information System Operator at Department of Environment and Natural Resources- Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Palo, Leyte for 11 months. She conducted compliance and monitoring to Community-based Forest Management areas within the office’s jurisdiction and made reports of her observations. She also organizes the Information Education and Communication (IEC) Campaigns to areas prone to illegal logging and deforestation and conduct interviews and series of seminars to communities within CBFM areas. She is also in-charge to form a Multi-sectoral Forest Protection Committee (MFPC) to a chosen municipality within our office’s jurisdiction. Furthermore, she also joined the extension officers conduct surveys and validation on National Greening Program. When she is in the office, she make maps of watersheds, hydropower plants, Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) and National Greening Program (NGP) areas. What she does is analyze and compare the maps of the NGP areas if there are changes in forest cover from the year the project began up to present and submit reports in monthly basis. On August 2020, she was offered a scholarship by the office of the graduate school and last December 2020, she had to leave her job to further my studies. At present, she is a 1st year Master student in Forestry in the same University where she finished my undergraduate program. She can be reached through these social media platforms: Instagram (@ms.shaney ), Twitter (shanellano) and Facebook (Rivah Shane Llano) or this contact number [phone].