Mount Matutum Protected Landscape

Meet the villagers whose livelihood depends on the unusual civet coffee - SilverKris

"A lush volcanic peak and 13,947-hectare protected nature reserve on the southern shoulder of which local indigenous communities have cultivated high-quality arabica since the 1700s. The mountain’s forested slopes overlap roughly 10,000 hectares of ancestral domain, sit above vast pineapple plantations, and provide habitat for the Philippine palm civet — the wild source of locally collected civet coffee. Its ecological and cultural landscape supports both specialty coffee production and community-led stewardship efforts that tie improved incomes to protection of wildlife and ancestral land rights." - Edgar Alan Zeta-Yap