Source: ANN
After ordering restrictions on commercial logging to help prevent flooding caused by severe deforestation, Philippine President Aquino Benigno Aquino III has ordered students and government employees to plant 1.5 billion trees on 1.5 million hectares of public domain under a national greening program.
Under Executive Order No. 26, President Aquino required students identified by the Department of Education and Commission on Higher Education and all government employees to each plant at least ten seedlings a year.
To be covered by the greening program are forestlands, mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domains, civil and military reservations, urban areas under the greening plan of the local government units, inactive and abandoned mine sites; and other suitable lands.
�Part of the plan also seeks to integrate the various tree-planting initiatives such as the upland development program, Luntiang Pilipinas and similar activities of the government and the private sector,� Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said in a statement.
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After ordering restrictions on commercial logging to help prevent flooding caused by severe deforestation, Philippine President Aquino Benigno Aquino III has ordered students and government employees to plant 1.5 billion trees on 1.5 million hectares of public domain under a national greening program.
Under Executive Order No. 26, President Aquino required students identified by the Department of Education and Commission on Higher Education and all government employees to each plant at least ten seedlings a year.
To be covered by the greening program are forestlands, mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domains, civil and military reservations, urban areas under the greening plan of the local government units, inactive and abandoned mine sites; and other suitable lands.
�Part of the plan also seeks to integrate the various tree-planting initiatives such as the upland development program, Luntiang Pilipinas and similar activities of the government and the private sector,� Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said in a statement.
