LEGAZPI CITY, Feb. 14 (PIA) – At least 14,000 Legazpeños planted some 14,000 trees for the Lakad-Tanim Para sa Puso (Walk-Plant for the Heart) in time for Valentine's Day celebration today on a vast denuded site down slopes of Mayon Volcano that also serves as pathway of volcanic debris in Barangay Pawa in this city.
Mayor Noel Rosal said in short ceremonies at the Albay Park and Wildlife the initiative manifests our gift we offer to Mother Nature as an expression of love as we celebrate Valentine’s Day in gratitude to her generosity in allowing our city and communities prosper into a very liveable place that we enjoy now.
Rosal also led the thousands of crowd to the early morning five-kilometer walk towards the planting site
The crowd, most of them couples in red, was composed of government workers, professionals, barangay officials, village folk and military, police and jail personnel. High school and college students who participated were counted at around 8,000.
“This is the biggest crowd so far that we were able to muster for this yearly event. This is also the biggest number of trees that we planted in eight years of observing this activity we call Lakad-Tanim Para sa Puso (Walk-Plant for the Heart) that we already call a Valentine’s Day tradition,” Rosal, who was with his wife and former city mayor Carmen Geraldine Rosal, said.
Incidentally, the combination of figures involved were more striking—the date is 14, the year is abbreviated as 14 (for 2014) and the number of trees planted by the same number of people is 14,000.
“We also offer this activity to the 1,400 Legazpeños who perished during the onslaught of super typhoon ‘Reming’ in September 2006 that triggered massive flashfloods from the slope of Mt. Mayon which also left behind an unimaginable degree of destructions to the city,” Rosal said.
“It was the same natural disaster that gave us the wake-up call into launching this yearly mass tree-planting activity for us to be able to fortify our defense against similar calamity by way of restoring our forest down the slopes of Mayon,” he explained.
This tradition was already able to plant around 60,000 trees in different sites near the foot of Mt. Mayon since it was started as a yearly event in 2007, Rosal said.
Most of these are already full-grown pine and narra trees that now provide vegetation in the once critically denuded sites.
The planting materials were provided by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Bicol regional office through its plant nurseries being maintained jointly by its Forest Management Bureau and the City Environment and Natural Resources Office. (MAL/DOCalleja-LGU Legazpi City/PIA5)
Mayor Noel Rosal said in short ceremonies at the Albay Park and Wildlife the initiative manifests our gift we offer to Mother Nature as an expression of love as we celebrate Valentine’s Day in gratitude to her generosity in allowing our city and communities prosper into a very liveable place that we enjoy now.
Rosal also led the thousands of crowd to the early morning five-kilometer walk towards the planting site
The crowd, most of them couples in red, was composed of government workers, professionals, barangay officials, village folk and military, police and jail personnel. High school and college students who participated were counted at around 8,000.
“This is the biggest crowd so far that we were able to muster for this yearly event. This is also the biggest number of trees that we planted in eight years of observing this activity we call Lakad-Tanim Para sa Puso (Walk-Plant for the Heart) that we already call a Valentine’s Day tradition,” Rosal, who was with his wife and former city mayor Carmen Geraldine Rosal, said.
Incidentally, the combination of figures involved were more striking—the date is 14, the year is abbreviated as 14 (for 2014) and the number of trees planted by the same number of people is 14,000.
“We also offer this activity to the 1,400 Legazpeños who perished during the onslaught of super typhoon ‘Reming’ in September 2006 that triggered massive flashfloods from the slope of Mt. Mayon which also left behind an unimaginable degree of destructions to the city,” Rosal said.
“It was the same natural disaster that gave us the wake-up call into launching this yearly mass tree-planting activity for us to be able to fortify our defense against similar calamity by way of restoring our forest down the slopes of Mayon,” he explained.
This tradition was already able to plant around 60,000 trees in different sites near the foot of Mt. Mayon since it was started as a yearly event in 2007, Rosal said.
Most of these are already full-grown pine and narra trees that now provide vegetation in the once critically denuded sites.
The planting materials were provided by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Bicol regional office through its plant nurseries being maintained jointly by its Forest Management Bureau and the City Environment and Natural Resources Office. (MAL/DOCalleja-LGU Legazpi City/PIA5)
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