Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has made a fresh pitch for Filipinos to consider planting and using bamboo as alternative to wood in order to help increase the country’s forest cover. Cimatu said that even the government is now shifting to planting bamboo under its flagship reforestation initiative – the Expanded National Greening Program (ENGP). “Our […]
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Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu ordered his regional director in Western Visayas to take the lead in the cleanup of rivers and shorelines in Panay Island. “I’m very happy that in Metro Manila they are all interested in environmental cleanup.” “This is really the direction and I’m very happy that in Metro Manila they are all […]