For the ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHP) Forum hosted by the Philippines on September 8-10, 2026, Forest Foundation Philippines tapped me to develop and create tokens for the Forum’s resource persons and VIP guests. We wanted tokens that were both useful and impactful so we chose chocolate gift sets and coaster sets.

The Forum’s theme was “Navigating a Sustainable Future for ASEAN Heritage Parks.” In line with this and with the Foundation’s guidance, I illustrated four Philippine ASEAN Heritage Parks: Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve, Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park, and Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park with each artwork highlighting the site’s flora and fauna alongside the people and produce connected to it.

I was also honored to present on Day 2 of the Forum, sharing our collaborative advocacy and the projects that led me there. It can all be traced back to my first collaboration with Forest Foundation Philippines in 2018 which led to many (many, many) meaningful projects – both with FFP and other organizations and clients – since. (More pics and stories are on this IG post.)

Team photo with FFP, taken at the ASEAN Heritage Parks Forum 2026

Thank you to Forest Foundation Philippines’ amazing Communications team for the trust, guidance, and the honor of being part of this momentous occasion. <3

• Schenley Anne Belmonte
• Diane Estephanie Bagui
• Joan Laura Abes

* Social media project documentation:
1. Participation at the AHP Forum
2. Closer look at AHP tokens

* I post most frequently on Instagram, so for a sneak peek at the latest projects (that might take a while to land here), feel free to follow along there! 😉

I was tapped by Synnovate Pharma, the natural products company of Unilab, Inc. to design the packaging for their 2020 Sekaya Prescribing Nature Gift Packs. A purchase of a gift pack enables the planting of Philippine native trees – Benguet Pine, a mangrove, and a dipterocarp – in partnership with the Cordillera Conservation Trust. For the packaging, I illustrated close-ups of elements of the Benguet Pine (Pinus kesiya), Dagang (Anisoptera aurea), and Gapas-Gapas (Camptostemon philippinense) in pen and ink plus watercolors, and layed them out all over the boxes’ surface. Line drawings of the same elements were used as a background image for the belt which has a placeholder for a Christmas card.

Update (July 2021) – Sekaya was able to donate 5,190 endemic seedlings for the reforestation in Cordillera from the sales of the gift packs! Big thanks to everyone who supported the project. 🙂

• You can order the gift packs directly from Sekaya on Instagram.

To learn more about the heart and journey behind this project, head over to my Advocacy Through Art page. There, I will continuoisly share how these collaborations are part of a bigger mission to celebrate biodiversity, empower communities, and use creativity for conservation.

* I post most frequently on Instagram, so for a sneak peek at the latest projects (that might take a while to land here), feel free to follow along there! 😉