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.
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