Dipolog spearheads mangrove tree planting

By Franklin P. Gumapon

Friday 6th of July 2012

DIPOLOG CITY, July 6 (PIA) -- A total of 3,500 mangrove tree seedlings have been planted along the marshy coastlines in Brgy. Olingan, this city.

Mayor Evelyn T. Uy together with the city government employees, Philippine National Police personnel, teachers and students of the Dipolog School of Fisheries, Food and Agriculture Organization-Regional Fisheries Livelihood Programme staff and barangay folks participated in the tree planting activity.

City Information Officer Robert Pinsoy also said the planting was one of the activities lined up for the city’s 99th founding anniversary celebration in support of President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III’s National Greening Program (NGP).

NGP is a government priority program aimed at promoting environmental stability and biodiversity conservation to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.

This program also seeks to plant 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares of public lands nationwide in six years.

Areas to be planted under this program include forest lands, mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domains, civil and military reservations, ancestral domains, civil urban areas under the greening plan of the local government units (LGUs), inactive and abandoned mine sites and others. (FPG/PIA-Zamboanga del Norte)