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PLDT plants 80,000 trees in Quezon

Employees of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) planted 80,000 high-quality hardwood and fruit-bearing trees to rehabilitate a watershed forest reserve in Quezon damaged by a series of flashfloods  and landslides in 2004.

Known as PLDT TelePuno, the five-year project planted narra and lipote seedlings in the 80 hectares of common watershed between the connected coastal towns of Infanta and Real, said Evelyn del Rosario, PLDT community relations head, on Monday.

“In the first three years of the project, we were able to hit our projected number of trees planted with the help of the PLDT employee-volunteers,” she said.

Locals used to be involved in illegal logging in Quezon to eke out a living after having seen its cost on life and livelihood.  Formerly cutting trees, they have become guardians of their environment, del Rosario said.

Read more: Oliver Samson, Business Mirror, November 24, 2014