DENR involves stakeholders in environmental stewardship by racquel m. caldez

QUIRINO, Isabela – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources urged the involvement of stakeholders in environmental stewardship during the scheduled National Greening Program Stakeholders’ Meeting held at the NGP Site Barangay Santiago in this town.

Environment Head in Isabela William C. Savella asked the participants to declare strong support and participate in the Greening Program of DENR which aims to help solve food security, reduce poverty, help achieve environmental stability, biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

“These actions are inspiring and are demonstrated with emerging societal commitment to environmental stewardship”, Savella said.

With recent developments, it suggests that a new era of environmental opportunity is upon us to make a steady environmental progress,” he further said.

The DENR officials are happy that no other than the president, Benigno S. Aquino III issued Executive Order No. 26 ordering and declaring the implementation of the National Greening Program. This NGP is now the flagship environmental greening program of the government which aims to plant 1.5 billon trees in 1.5 million hectares of land in the country until 2016.

DENR Regional Executive Director Benjamin Tumaliuan said he is looking forward to working with the environmental partner on this program to lead the nation to a cleaner, safer and more prosperous future. 

The environmental partners particularly the local officials in District 02 expressed sincerest gratitude to the DENR in implementing the vision for NGP.

Stakeholders have to actively take responsibility to improve environmental quality and achieve sustainable results for they have an important role to play in promoting and sustaining the programs of the Department.