Restrictions set on climb to Mt. Pulag
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet—Camping on Luzon’s highest peak is no longer allowed during weekends, one of the new rules imposed by the overseers of the Mt. Pulag National Park to assure its protection without disrupting the business provided by mountain trekkers to the Ibaloy and Kalanguya communities in the area.
Emelita Albas, Mt. Pulag park administrator, said her office has started to turn back tourists and have prohibited camping in one of the country’s last mossy forests from Friday to Sunday.
“We need to limit visitors inside the park for conservation purposes. We turned back a hundred tourists on Feb. 8 [because the park was full],” Albas said at a news conference on Thursday.
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