News STEAG makes headway in refo project STEAG State Power Inc. has embarked on a massive reforestation project covering an aggregate area of 2,200 hectares in its host communities in Mindanao. STEAG makes headway in refo project Villanueva, Misamis Oriental – Mindanao’s pioneering private-led Carbon Sink and Urban Forestry Projects are gaining headways with the growing of more than 240,000 endemic trees over the last five years. That’s more than a hundred new trees being grown everyday! In a prepared report, STEAG State Power Inc. indicated that its company supported reforestation projects through the years had so far covered almost 400 hectares of new areas, including the areas situated within the 1,200 hectare Mapawa Reforestation Project in Brgy. Cugman, Cagayan de Oro City and two urban forestry projects in Misamis Oriental. The Mapawa refo project is a partnership between STEAG, E. Pelaez Ranch Inc., and DENR-EMB Region 10. It aims to establish a 500 hectare new forest, maintain and protect an existing 500 hectare tree plantation, and conduct timber stand improvement on an existing 200-hectare natural forest. The Urban Forestry Project, on the other hand involves seedling propagation to cover an estimated aggregate area of 1,000 hectares within STEAG’s host communities in Tagoloan and Villanueva, Misamis Oriental. STEAG Environment Officer Francis Libao said that these projects are part of the company’s commitment to a global campaign to protect the environment. “The benefits of this project are far reaching. Aside from improving biodiversity and sustaining water supply, good forest covers prevent soil erosion and avert catastrophic floods” Libao said as he echoes calls for a more aggressive and no non-sense implementation of forest protection and development projects. Meanwhile, Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) Director for Region 10 and MMT Chairman Sabdullah Abubacar cited the Mapawa Reforestation Project as a model for the private-public partnership in forest conservation and development. He also acknowledges the need for more private sector involvement in environmental conservation as expressed not only in terms of operational compliance to environmental standards, but also in undertaking pro-active initiatives geared towards the attainment of sustainable development.
STEAG makes headway in refo project
Villanueva, Misamis Oriental – Mindanao’s pioneering private-led Carbon Sink and Urban Forestry Projects are gaining headways with the growing of more than 240,000 endemic trees over the last five years. That’s more than a hundred new trees being grown everyday!
In a prepared report, STEAG State Power Inc. indicated that its company supported reforestation projects through the years had so far covered almost 400 hectares of new areas, including the areas situated within the 1,200 hectare Mapawa Reforestation Project in Brgy. Cugman, Cagayan de Oro City and two urban forestry projects in Misamis Oriental.
The Mapawa refo project is a partnership between STEAG, E. Pelaez Ranch Inc., and DENR-EMB Region 10. It aims to establish a 500 hectare new forest, maintain and protect an existing 500 hectare tree plantation, and conduct timber stand improvement on an existing 200-hectare natural forest. The Urban Forestry Project, on the other hand involves seedling propagation to cover an estimated aggregate area of 1,000 hectares within STEAG’s host communities in Tagoloan and Villanueva, Misamis Oriental.
STEAG Environment Officer Francis Libao said that these projects are part of the company’s commitment to a global campaign to protect the environment.
“The benefits of this project are far reaching. Aside from improving biodiversity and sustaining water supply, good forest covers prevent soil erosion and avert catastrophic floods” Libao said as he echoes calls for a more aggressive and no non-sense implementation of forest protection and development projects.
Meanwhile, Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) Director for Region 10 and MMT Chairman Sabdullah Abubacar cited the Mapawa Reforestation Project as a model for the private-public partnership in forest conservation and development.
He also acknowledges the need for more private sector involvement in environmental conservation as expressed not only in terms of operational compliance to environmental standards, but also in undertaking pro-active initiatives geared towards the attainment of sustainable development.