Biodiversity plan seeks to revive Ifugao Rice Terraces

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The centuries-old Ifugao Rice Terraces, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1995, are confronting biodiversity losses as more Ifugao youth abandon the mountain-carved rice farms amid the continuing decline in the economic viability of traditional farming. A proposal to integrate biodiversity conservation into the economic plans of Ifugao ancestral domains