By Alma L. Tingcang
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ZAMBOANGA
CITY, June 11 - - - The Regional Advisory Council (RAC) of the National Youth
Commission (NYC) is scheduled to conduct a Mangrove Planting activity on June
15, 2012 together with some youth organizations at Barangay Mampang,
Zamboanga City.
The
group will assemble outside Land Bank of the Philippines, Pettit Barracks at
6:30 AM on Friday and will proceed to the area at 7:00 AM.
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Mr. Raymond B. Domingo, NYC
Regional Head said RAC member-agencies agreed to conduct the mangrove planting in
support to the National Greening Program (NGP) of the government and in time with the celebration of Environment
Month this June.
The NGP is a government
priority program which intends to pursue sustainable development for poverty
reduction, food security, biodiversity conservation and climate change
mitigation and adaptation.
It aims to plant some 1.5 billion
trees covering some 1.5 million hectares for a period of 6 years from 2011-2016
in the following areas of public domain: forest lands, mangrove and protected
areas, ancestral domains, civil and military reservations, urban areas under
the greening plan of the local government units (LGUS) , inactive and abandoned
mine sites and other suitable lands. (ALT-PIA9/Zambo Sur)
