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Friday, October 19, 2012

NSCB-9 spearheads tree planting in support to the National Greening Program

By Felipo David G. Malcampo

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Oct. 19 (PIA) – The National Statistical Coordinating Board-9 (NSCB) led at least 500 individuals in a tree planting activity this morning inside the Pasonanca Natural Park as part of the National Statistics Month celebration in support to the National Green Program of the government.

NSCB-9 Regional Head Mewchun Pamaran said the activity aims to convey three important objectives to the public.
 “We did this activity, first, in support to the government’s National Greening Program (NGP), second is to inculcate in the minds of the public that saving mother earth is the concern of everybody, even us statisticians, and with the climate change really affecting us. The third reason is,  it’s our way of responding to the call of time”, Dir. Pamaran said.

At least 500 personnel from the Philippine National Police, different government line agencies, and students from the Zamboanga State College of Marine Science and Technology planted 800 mahogany and narra seedlings in an area adopted and cared for by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas-Zamboanga City Branch (BSP).

BSP-Zamboanga Branch Head Mr. Melodino Patiño, in his previous statement, said BSP is zealously advocating for the protection and conservation of the environment, thus, they adopted the area for their tree planting and environmental protection activities. He said they want to set the best example to others on cooperating and participating in environmental protection and conservation.

Dir. Pamaran thanked Mr. Patiño for partnering with them in the activity and to oversee the maintenance of the newly-planted seedlings.

“I would like to thank Mr. Patiño for being our partner in this activity. He even told us not to worry about the maintenance of the newly planted seedlings since they have people who work for them in maintaining their adopted area and that the new seedlings will be taken cared of”, Pamaran enthused.

Pamaran added that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will help in monitoring the progress of the project to ensure high rate of the seedlings’ survival.

She also thanked the Philippine National Police, where most of the participants came from, employees of various government line agencies, and the students who took part in the activity.
“We thank everybody who came and shared their time and effort making our activity a success”, she said.

Pamaran pointed out that tree planting activity will now be a permanent fixture in the list of activities to be conducted during the National Statistics Month celebrated every October. (ALT/FDM/PIA9-ZBST)