Floating bamboo houses keep this indigenous tribe safe in a typhoon

The Manobo indigenous community in the Agusan Marshlands of the Philippines live in floating homes able to withstand floods, rising water levels and typhoons. Their way of life could have answers for how to adapt to climate threats.

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The Manobo tribe are trying to preserve their way of life on the water despite the rapid changes in their environment.

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Marites Babanto, one of the leaders of the Manobo community, says the wetlands have shrunk in size during her lifetime. "My experience when I was child, the Agusan Marsh was still vast with so much water. When I got married, there was so much change because of climate change. The marsh is turning dry and the storms have gotten stronger and altered our environment," she says.

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"We are experiencing the truth of climate change," says Reyes. "The land has become water and the water has become land."