PRESIDENT Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. underscored his administration's thrust to preserve the country's forests when he led a simultaneous bamboo and tree planting activity on his 65th birthday last September 13.

More than 130,000 bamboo culms and native tree seedlings were planted in 111 sites covering an aggregate area of 681.5 hectares. The indigenous tree seedlings included agoho, kalumpit, yakal, molave, narra, bignai and banaba.

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