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Under a new law, students must plant 10 trees before they can graduate elementary, high school and college

Under the new Bill, students graduating elementary school, high school, and college in the Philippines must plant at least ten tree seedlings in areas such as forests, mangroves, and indigenous territories.
Here’s one way to plant 175 million trees within a year: get young people to do it for school.

On May 15, the Philippine Congress officially passed a Bill stating that all students from elementary school, high school, and college (roughly equivalent to primary school, secondary school and university) must plant at least 10 trees in order to graduate, CNN You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..

The trees can be planted in either forest, mangroves, reserves, urban areas, abandoned mining sites, or in indigenous territory, according to You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..


According to CNN, the trees must be also appropriate for the area’s climate, and indigenous tree species are preferred.


The Bill – named the “Graduation Legacy for the Environment Act 2016” – was introduced by congressman Gary Alejano to promote “inter-generational responsibility” over environmental protection.

“While we recognise the right of the youth to a balanced and healthy ecology… there is no reason why they cannot be made to contribute in order to ensure that this will be an actual reality,” Alejano wrote in the Bill’s explanatory note.

He added that the initiative would see at least 175 million new trees planted every year, totaling over 525 billion additional trees “in the course of one generation”.

Under the Bill, the country’s Education Department is responsible for implementing the new rule, while others, such as the Environment and Agriculture Departments, will establish nurseries, supply seedlings, identify suitable planting sites, and monitor the trees’ progress.

Alejano said that even if the trees’ survival rate was 10 percent, this would still amount to 525 million additional trees in the country.

He added that these trees will become the students’ living legacy to the environment and future generations.



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its still a bill not a law... but this is a good one, but they must make sure that they would take care of the tree... coz theres a lot of tree planting activities in schools but where are are the trees now?
 
Hope they will also protect those trees. Baka putulin lang din ng mga big companies yan tulad ng SM, like what they did sa mga puno sa Baguio
 
Maganda..Kung mahihigpitan lang din sana yung mga batas para sa environment natin, hindi masasayang ang mga effort ng estudyante
 
Grabi talaga ngayun ang Duterte Administration di lang para sa mga Tao ng Pilipinas ang Proyekto kundi Para sa lahat pati sa Eco System! Best Preident Ever si Duterte walang katulad...!
 
Going green is a very good idea, on condition that students are not just made to plant trees and then the trees end up disappearing in thin air. There should also be a law to ensure that there is someone responsible for the growth of those trees to full maturity, coz otherwise it would just be a waste of time, water and other resources.
 
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