Thousands join highway tree planting
URDANETA – Thousands from all walks of life formed a human chain along the national highway in Pangasinan Friday morning to participate in the Green Philippine Highway Program that extended from Laoag City in the north to Zamboanga City in the south.
Mayor Amadeo Perez, Jr. and Vice Mayor Chu Rosario spearheaded the tree planting in Urdaneta’s part of the national highway from the boundary in Binalonan to Villasis.
The Green Philippine Highway Project initiated by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources was expected to have planted over a half a million trees nationwide in simultaneous tree planting.
The project is also expected to be another Philippine entry to the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most number of participants in a single tree planting activity.
Mayor Perez hailed the success of the Green Philippine Highway Program noting the big number of people and organizations that supported it at one time.
In Urdaneta City, the tree planting went beyond tree planting along the highway and more than 10,000 seedlings were planted in and around the remotest barangay, targeting village roads, vacant yards and campuses.
He said the people of Urdaneta did it because to them the trees could spell their survival in a future economic crunch or future calamity.
Ipil-ipil trees were planted so these could be trimmed soon to serve as firewood in the event a substitute will be needed to replace the very costly liquefied petroleum gas.
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