DILG Eastern Visayas assistant regional director
Artemio Caneja said the activity supports the government’s National Greening
Program (NGP), which was aimed to reforest the remaining 7.1 million hectares
of unproductive, denuded and degraded forestlands nationwide.
The activity will see more than 1,300 trees planted
in the farming village of San Roque in Mayorga, Leyte.
Under the current administration, the Expanded NGP
seeks to reforest some 1.2 million hectares from 2017-2022, in accordance with
the updated 2016-2028 Master Plan for Forestry Development.
The groups will assemble at Plaza Rizal in this
city at 4 a.m. before heading to the site.
“Aside from DILG staff and broadcasters, different
government agencies are invited to the said activity so we can plant more
trees. We must unify our efforts and jointly work towards environment
protection to be able to conserve biodiversity and to prevent environmental
degradation,” Caneja said.
For the past seven years now, the DILG and KBP have
been conducting the said activity.
Launched in 2009, the “Oplan Broadcastreeing”
project has received the Peace and Environment Award from the Universal Peace
Federation in 2015 and the Tanging Bayani ng Kalikasan Award from the People
Management Association of the Philippines in 2016. (LAAA/PNA)
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