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Some 36 million seedlings for the Enhanced National Greening Program (ENGP) has been raised by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) during the first half of this year amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The number already represents almost 80 percent of the 45.2 million seedlings targeted for the entire year under the […]
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 […]
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has called for increased private sector engagement in the Enhanced National Greening Program (ENGP), a flagship reforestation initiative of the government aimed at increasing the country’s forest cover. “We hope to encourage more private companies to help us in restoring and protecting our forests as we seek to establish new ENGP […]