SAN FERNANDO—Adopt a tree, help save the environment and enjoy a healthier life.
The Multi-Sectoral Governance Council of this city is calling on the public to help save some 500 trees along the Manila North Road and provincial highway in barangays Dela Paz, to Baliti and Lazatin boulevard in this city which are affected by the widening of the road.
The inspection team of the Provincial Environment Natural Resource Office disclosed that about 62 trees must be cut because they are dying, while 97 are recommended for earth-balling because they are healthy.
Arthur Salazar of the technical services department of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Luzon said the trees were found to be defective and must be cut immediately to avoid accidents during storms.
The trees to be cut along Manila North Road or MacArthur Highway are narra, camachile, talasai and acacias and other breed.
Those who can be earth-balled are mostly healthy acacia trees available for adoption, Wilfrito Mah, head of the council’s committee of public safety and order, said.
Under the adopt a tree program, interested parties can finance the earth-balling and transport of the tree to their respective areas.
The cost of earth-balling a tree is about P50,000.
Mah said about 20 interested parties, mostly schools, hospitals and individuals have applied for the program, including Our Lady of Fatima University, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Hospital and businessman Jess Nicdao, president of the Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The program was pursued after 59 trees transferred to Lubao reported 97 percent survival, he added.
