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IPO Watershed, which supplies fresh water to 20 million people living or working in Metro Manila, will be bolstered with hundreds of thousands of new trees next year.Through donations generated from GCash, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the United Nations Development Program’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (Biofin) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) will plant the first of 365,000 native trees such as narra, lauaan, kupang and yakal as soon as Covid-19 restrictions are lifted in 2021.
“We originally wanted to plant in mid-2020 but decided to heed lockdown guidelines to ensure public safety,” explains Mabel Niala, Mynt Public Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility head of GCash. GCash is the Philippines’ top cashless service, serving a fifth of the population; plus 75,000 partner merchants and 75 nonprofit organizations.
DENR eyes massive Ipo Dam watershed reforestation in 2021
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DENR eyes massive Ipo Watershed Reforestation in 2021
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Published December 11, 2020, 5:00 AM
GCash, the digital financial services firm of Globe Telecom, Inc., will fund a massive government-led re-forestation of Ipo Watershed, which is one of Metro Manila’s sources of freshwater.
A statement showed that through donations generated from GCash, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the United Nations Development Programme’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) will be able to plant the first of 365,000 native trees like Narra, Lauaan, Kupang and Yakal in Ipo, which is located in Bulacan.
The reforestation will take place in 2021 as soon as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.