“FDAI celebrates Arbor Day 2023 with its community Partners through Community-Planting Activity.”
In a span of two years of implementing the project on “Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation of the Most Vulnerable Areas in Agusan del Sur”, The Foundation for the Development of Agusanon Inc.(FDAI) successfully distributed a total of 3, 181 planting materials of the endemic tree and fruit trees that its 8 local partner-communities utilized as planting materials during their community-tree planting activities. These planting materials are utilized in their Barangay Tree Park and areas adopted and declared as their Reforestation, Protection, and Rehabilitation Areas during Arbor Day Celebration.
A total of 1,605 planting materials of dipterocarp or endemic trees were distributed and planted last year during the celebration of Arbor Day on June 25, and an additional 1,577 endemic trees and fruit trees are distributed and planted again in this year’s Arbor Day Celebration. On average, 75% of the endemic trees planted during last year’s Arbor Day celebration have survived.
The national government proclaimed every June 25 of the year to be celebrated nationwide as Arbor Day. During this day, all government agencies, including government-owned and controlled corporations, the private sector, schools, civil society groups, and citizenry are enjoined to actively participate in a synchronized nationwide tree planting activity to promote a healthier ecosystem, rehabilitate degraded forest eco-system and assess the re-greening of the environment.
To address the ill-effect and impact of climate change on local communities, FDAI strongly advocates the protection and preservation of the remaining forest cover of local communities. Help arrest the ongoing deterioration of its forest cover through reforestation.
In collaboration and support from FDAI’s partners from the Provincial Local Government Unit of Agusan del Sur through its Provincial Agriculture and Environment and Natural Resource Offices, PENRO-DENR, PHILSAGA Mining Corporation, CENRO offices of Bunawan and Talacogon, the FDAI is able to secure 277 planting materials of Fruits Trees that include (Rabana,Mangosteen, Nangka, Rambotan, Durian, Lanzones, Marang) and 1,300 dipterocarp or endemic trees (Narra, Dao, Kalantas, Lanipaw, Lawaan, Molave/Togas) that the foundation distributed and successfully utilized in the community-tree planting activities of its 8 partner communities in this year’s Arbor Day celebration.
