ThE Provincial Environment and Natural Resources office (PENRO) is keen on implementing its priority developmental projects this year.

Wendy Co, PENRO chief, said her office will focus on priority programs such as the establishment of several hectares of lands for reforestation, mangrove rehabilitation, and watershed rehabilitation.

In addition, she said her office is busy preparing documents of some 3,000 free patent land titling this year.

“We have to register these with the register of Deeds before the year-end,” she said.

In June, when the country celebrated the Environment Month, Co said free patent titles were distributed to some beneficiaries in Mapandan, Mangaldan, and Sta.Barbara.

Mahogany seedlings were also given to beneficiaries in Sta. Barbara and Mangaldan towns.

A forum dubbed as Salu-salo at Ugnayan sa Kalikasan was also conducted in Sta.Barbara town to explain the services being offered by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to the people.

Present at the forum was lawyer Rufino Moreno, chief of the Register of Deeds based in Lingayen, who explained the processes involved in land titling.

Other activities conducted during the Environment Month were the massive tree-planting along the Sinucalan River in Sta. Barbara where 1,000 eucalyptus and bamboo seedlings were planted.

In Dagupan City, 1,000 mangrove seedlings along the Lucao by-pass road were also planted.

LNU citation

Co congratulated the Lyceum-Northwestern University (LNU) for the citation it received from Malacanang for its environmental program.

LNU, through its president, Dr. Gonzalo Duque, and the DENR earlier signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) tapping the students taking National Service Training Program (NSTP) for environmental programs and projects like tree planting.

“We are tapping the students for seedling production and again for more tree planting activities,” Co said.—CSR

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