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| Louie Logarta |
Camarines Sur Gov. LRay Villafuerte, one of the most dynamic local government officials to have cropped up in recent years, may have actually latched on to a good thing with the “green initiative” that he is pushing whose ultimate objective is to improve and protect the environment and more importantly increase food production.
The most significant feature of Villafuerte’s novel undertaking is the proposed planting of 12 million trees in CamSur (that’s how it has been re-christened under Villafuerte), which is the biggest of the six provinces in the Bicol region with a land area of 526,000 hectares, by the year 2012 in order to assure future generations of a clean and decent life-sustaining place where they can live.
“The El Verde Movement combines biodiversity conservation, economic development and a climate adaptation strategy to help reverse the rate of deforestation in CamSur,” Villafuerte says in a pamphlet being circulated by hornblowers positing the facets of the initiative which if handled properly might just transform the province into the “green capital” of the Philippines.
Incidentally, this green initiative being propagated by Governor Villafuerte, son of Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte Sr. who was once one of the staunchest allies of President Arroyo in the House of Representatives, isn’t an original..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110206com4.html
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