Abstract:
The research study is an effort to analyze the community-based forest management
program of the government. [i dealt extensively on the impacts of the watershed project in
the socio-economic conditions of the community inhabited by the Aeta families of Bamban,
Tarlac. As such, the researcher had to experience community integration so as to obtain
primary data essential to the study. Utilizing the dialectical/historical materialist
perspective, it contextualizes the current State of Philippine environment in relation with the
existing social milieu. The experience of the: Aeta community will clearly show the factors
why most of the ecological rehabilitation projects induced by the government fail to address
the deepening and worsening environmental crisis.