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KBP-IN plants 2,000 saplings for ‘Broadcastreeing 2013’

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By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff Reporter

At least 2,000 saplings of bitaog (Colophyllum inophyllum) and talisay (Terminalia catappa) were planted in a sandy forestland at Barangay La Paz here in Laoag City on September 7 in support of the nationwide urban greening project.

Now on its third year, the “Oplan Broadcastreeing” program of the Kapisan ng Broadkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP), the group’s Ilocos Norte Chapter led the tree planting activity on early Saturday participated in by member-volunteers  including students and teachers of the Ilocos Norte College of Arts and Trades and the Pinakbet group in cooperation with the Ilocos Norte Regional School of Fisheries (INRSF) in the coastal village of La Paz.

Celestina Calonge-Paz, KBP-Ilocos Norte Chapter president hopes the program will continue to inspire everyone to plant more trees and help nurture the environment especially now that the impact of global warming is being felt worldwide.

At a time when the INRSF was still on its infancy, or more than three decades ago, school principal Oscar Villanueva said the school’s compound used to be a desert-like compound without any shade of trees.

But with a continued greening and tree planting program, Villanueva said the school was developed and turned out as one of the sites identified by the DENR as part of its urban forest project backed by public and private organizations such as the KBP.

He assured that the new 2,000 bitaog and talisay tree saplings planted adjacent to the school compound will be properly cared and nurtured by students of the INRSF.

The simultaneous nationwide implementation of the “Oplan Broadcastreeing Project” is in accordance with a Memorandum of Agreement inked in April 2011 between the DILG and the KBP, and has since been done in coordination with the DENR.

KBP members plant their respective trees during the “Oplan Broadcastreeing” at La Paz, Laoag City on September 7. 
Photos by Lei Adriano


Joing the broadcast group are the Pinakbet group 

and students and teacher of the Ilocos Norte College of Arts and Trades.
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