Province wide Simultaneous Tree Planting Activity in Celebration of the Philippine Environment Month

June 8, 2022 – Concerted efforts of PENRO Sarangani, National and Local Government Agencies, local communities, People’s Organizations, and stakeholders gathered more than 350 volunteer planters early in the morning of June 8, 2022, to simultaneously plant more than 1,000 seedlings in the municipalities of Maasim, Maitum, Glan, and Alabel, Sarangani Province. This undertaking is in line with the celebration of the Environment Month, a massive call for the public to collectively take action for our only home, echoing the theme “Aksyon Para sa Natatanging Mundo”.

Coffee, Ipil, Molave, Tabebuia, Narra, Cacao, Falcata, Mahogany, and Bamboo seedlings were planted in the barangays of Lumasal, Zion, Pangyan and the two-planting sites of PENRO office at Alegria, and Spring. A total of 200 tabebuia seedlings were also distributed to the beneficiaries of the Enhanced National Greening Program at Purok Calsidao, Bgy. Pangyan in the Municipality of Glan.

The top management officials of PENRO Sarangani, CENR Officers Abdul C. Cariga and Rosalinda B. Cortez led the event with the support of the MENROs of Alabel, Maasim, and Maitum, BLGUs, Sarangani Police Provincial Office Director PCol Nicomede P. Olaivar, Jr., DPWH Sarangani District Engineering Office, USAID-Safe Waters, PNP Maritime of Kiamba and Maitum, Philippine Coast Guards, 38th Infantry Battalion, Seguil Hydro Power Corporation, Conrado & Ladislawa Alcantara Foundation, Inc., Pongole-el Integrated School and different People’s Organizations.

Right after the tree planting, the rescued two reticulated pythons (Python reticulatus eticulatus) and two Yellow-headed water monitor lizards (Varanus cumingi) were released back into the wild by Engr. Allan C. Rivera of MENRO Alabel and Ms. Earth-Alabel Merhyl Kit Paraluman, at Sitio Pongole-el, Bgy. Alegria, Sarangani Province.