Rosalinda Gadugdug-Paredes (Linda) is a long-standing champion of environmental protection in Bohol. Her advocacy began in the early 1990s with the founding of Friends of Tarsius, an academe-based initiative that campaigned against the capture and domestication of the Philippine Tarsier. She later led community efforts to prevent the cutting of trees at Garcia Park in 2012, and most recently in 2025, raised public awareness on the risks posed by construction on the fragile

mounds of Banat-I Hill.

A respected trainer and facilitator, Linda has built the capacities of countless local government staff across Bohol and neighboring provinces. Her expertise spans participatory planning and budgeting, results-based monitoring and evaluation, and citizen engagement in local governance—skills she has imparted to strengthen institutions and deepen democratic participation. She played a key role in the formulation of the Bohol Environment Code in 1998 and its revision in 2025. She likewise facilitated the development of the Bohol Incentive and Investment Code of 2014 and its transformation into the Bohol Economic Development and Investment Promotion Code in 2022.

Linda’s professional experience covers more than 30 years of managing and coordinating development projects funded by AusAID, USAID, GIZ, JICA, and other international partners in Bohol Province and Tagbilaran City. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy major in Human Resource Management (2018) and a Master of Arts in Psychology (1987). She currently serves as the Governance and Development Consultant of the City Government of Tagbilaran.