This impart of SMC’s nationwide reforestation initiatives that include planting of seven million trees in seven provinces and expanding the Bulakan Mangrove Ecopark in Brgy. Taliptip–where the conglomerate will build a world-class airport.

SMC is in the initial stages of developing the first 20 hectares of what will be the San Miguel-Paombong Mangrove Plantation & Sanctuary.

Company president Ramon S. Ang said as many as 200,000 mangrove trees would be planted, more than the 190,000 mangroves that SMC initially targeted last year.

Next month, SMC employees will plant 10,000 mangroves at the Bulakan Mangrove Ecopark. a 24.5-hectare mangrove area located in Taliptip.

“Planting is just the first step. Making sure that these mangroves grow to adulthood is the bigger challenge and will involve the community, especially those that will benefit from it. In combination with our upcoming river dredging and cleanup projects in Bulacan and further emphasis on proper waste disposal, we can both safeguard the marine environment and address flooding in the province,”Ang said.

Ang said its power unit SMC Global Power Holdings Corp. has committed to plant seven million upland trees and mangroves in Zambales, Davao Occidental, Bataan, Negros Occidental, Pangasinan, Albay, Quezon, and Bulacan.

Since the project started in 2019, SMCGP’s volunteers, along with some 24 local farmer and fisherfolk organizations, have already planted, and are caring for over three million seedlings and propagules as of August 15 this year.

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