Tree planting set on the day of Ruby’s landfall
September 5, 2014
Ferdinandh Cabrera
Cotabato
City--- At the day typhoon Ruby is expected its landfall in the country,
This time
to replace the number of seedlings that did not survived during last May’s
Mindanao wide “Treevolution Campaign”
which BKAG took a big part in organising and mobilising participants in a
succesfull world breaking on most planted
and participated tree planting in an hour campaign by Mindanao Development
Authority and DENR.
Balik-Kalikasan
Advocacy Group focal person Captain Gregorio Jose said, a 30 percent mortality
of seedlings were monitored from the 500
planted Antipolo and Lanipao seedlings in 5 hectare area reforestation area is
scheduled to be replaced.
“ This was
our commitment together with my Brigade commander Col. Arnel Dela Vega before
to the regional governor Mujiv Hataman that we will ensure the trees we planted
are not only for show up or compliance but to sincerely implement reforestation
to mitigate climate change”, Captain Jose said.
Hataman led
the treevolution in this site where he dreams to visit in future days, to check
how the trees he planted had grown up.
Hataman
said, the place is suitable for reforestation as the town is suffering from
freequent devastating floods that affects thousand of people and heavy traffic
congestions when water overflows in the highways.
With this the
STI college, an academe part of the BKAG, pledged to adopt more communities for
reforestation and one of those is in the area of Pigcalagan which the BKAG
planted during Treevolution.
BKAG is a
decade long environmental advocacy group from the 6th Division,
DENR, academe, civil society groups, Minirco Lumber Inc, and Cotabato media
that aims to protect environment and climate change mitigation.
END.
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