by Franklin P. Gumapon
DIPOLOG CITY, July
6 (PIA) - - A total of 3,500 mangrove tree seedlings have been planted recently
along the marshy coastlines in barangay Olingan this city.
Mayor Evelyn T. Uy
together with the city government employees, Philippine National Police (PNP)
personnel, teachers and students of the Dipolog School of Fisheries (DSF), Food
and Agriculture Organization-Regional Fisheries Livelihood Programme (FAO-RFLP)
staff and barangay folks participated in the tree planting activity.
City Information
Officer Robert Pinsoy also disclosed that the said activity 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 forestlands, 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)