฀hilippine and Asian Studies: Explorations, Expositions, and Expectations Select ฀apers from the 2 nd International Conference on ฀hilippine and Asian Studies Word ฀rints ฀ublishing Services, Inc. Taytay, Rizal. Copyright 2018. ISSN: 2619.711 ฀age | ฀ Environmental Education through Rainforestation: From the Experiences of the Adopters from the Island Municipality of Pilar, Camotes, Cebu Guiraldo C. Fernandez, Jr. Department of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences Visayas State University Baybay City, Leyte guiraldo211@gmail.com Abstract Rainforestation (RF) is a technology designed as method to ฀hilippine Government’s thrust for massive reforestation using ฀hilippine native tree species for the purpose of re-establishing basic ecological functions. Yet, for Rainforestation to be successfully implemented, people have to be educated of the importance of the environment to their lives. Using the method of hermeneutic phenomenology, this study aims to determine how environmental education has contributed to the thrust of environmental conservation through Rainforestation in ฀ilar, Camotes, inquire into the causes why a number of ฀ilaranons have adopted rainforestation, and determine the aspects of Rainforestation’s’ impacts to the lives of the adopters. This study concludes that environmental education enabled ฀ilaranons to adopt rainforestation as a tool for nature conservation, rainforestation adoption is driven by the motive to preserve of what are left of the natural environment, and lastly, rainforestation has positively changed the lives of adopters in a variety ways. Keywords: Environmental Education, Rainforestation. Environment Conservation Introduction Forest covers in the ฀hilippines have been dwindling through the years. This phenomenon has greatly changed the landscape of the archipelagic nation in terms of biodiversity composition. According to Haribon Foundation, biodiversity in the ฀hilippines has been one of the richest in the world. It has been part of the 17 mega diverse countries which collectively claim two thirds of all global species. Yet, 70% of ฀hilippine forests have vanished from the 1930s to 1988 (Haribon Foundation, 2016). There have been two major causes of ฀hilippine forests loss. They refer to the conversion of primary forests to secondary forests by both legal and illegal logging as well as the removal of secondary forests cover by expansion of upland agriculture (Fernando, 2005). Because of this, massive reforestation has been initiated by the government. However, though the ฀hilippine government has introduced programs to rehabilitate denuded lands, the efforts of both government and private sectors have not been enough to abate the rapid deforestation rate of the ฀hilippine forests (Kalikasan ฀eople’s