Volunteer mountaineers from Sta. Cruz has participated the SMART LAWIN Foot Patrolling in Barangay Tibolo on September 2-4, 2015 along with community members and personnel from B+WISER USAID. B+WISER has introduced the HCVAs and SMART LAWIN as a tool for biodiversity and threats monitoring. This new system is called Landscape and Wildlife Indicators or LAWIN. With the introduction of geo-spatial dimension to the analysis, the automation or semi-automation of the analysis, and the integration of a timely and responsive environmental law enforcement system are seen as instrumental “value additions” to the current BMS, which will make data analysis more robust providing real time data that will allow for quick actions.
