Natural Resources

The municipality of Tukuran has a total land are of 13,925.5589 hectares that constitutes 1.89% of the province of Zamboanga del Sur, 0.75% of the Region IX, while 0.04% of the country’s 30 million hectares.

The land which man has so long taken for granted is a finite resource which needs to be preserved to pass on to the next generation and to our children and children’s children.  But it seems, we have forgotten this responsibility.  The destruction of land and its values have gone unabated.  As a consequence, mankind’s have started to feel the effects of his wanton activities have caused.  Among these, are the flash floods that destroy crops and lives, muddy water supply, and the trickles of water from the faucets during summer?

          Men have now awakened to the fact that land has to be properly utilized and allocated if we are to retain this invaluable commodity.

          Tukuran had formerly been part of Labangan.  The whole are used to be covered with lush forest, except for the coastal areas.  However, when Christian’s settlers started arriving, the once lush forests were cut down to give way to the expanding settlements.  At present, lowlands of Tukuran are being utilized as rice lands.  The dense forest that characterize the whole town had all been cut down without due consideration for its consequences.  So much so the entire forest areas of the municipality that are so denuded are under the reforestation program of the Bureau of Forest Development in an effort to maintain the ecosystem of the area.