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On Monday, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. asked the public and private sectors to cooperate in safeguarding, preserving, and managing the nation’s finite resources. He specifically urged the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

“I challenge everyone to carry a deep sense of pride and ownership of the lands that will continue to nurture and feed our nation for generations to come,” Marcos said at a celebration of the 160th anniversary of the Philippine Forestry Service and the Philippine Environment Month held in Quezon City.

To secure the viability of forest initiatives in the nation, Marcos suggested that the Philippines adopt an Ilocos Norte-developed strategy for forest management.

The Asian Development Bank provided funding for the Ilocos project, which included cooperative development, watershed development, and tree planting.

According to Marcos, the Filipino people will exert all their efforts to conserve the ecosystem, forestland, and biodiversity as long as they feel a sense of ownership and belonging in the cause.

And the only way we could ensure that this program would be self-sustaining and that the people who live there would truly care for the trees after we left was to instill a sense of ownership in them. We accomplished this by merely declaring, “These trees are yours.” You are responsible for looking after them. You must put them to use, Marcos remarked.

“And I’m pleased to report that those trees are still flourishing, holding strong, and continuing to cover a sizable portion of our forestland and the watershed developments we had begun. He continued that it is a starting point; it may serve as a blueprint.

At the DENR’s Environmental Heroes Park, the President planted a Molave tree to commemorate the event.

The Spanish government founded the Philippine Forestry Service in 1863, and President Emilio Aguinaldo’s administration reorganized it in 1899.

The Bureau of Forest Development was established in 1974 thanks to the Forestry Reform Code of the Philippines, which was signed into law by the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Executive Order No. 192 established the Forest Management Bureau in 1987.

Currently, forests cover more than half of the nation’s 15 million hectares of forested area.

Between 2010 and 2020, the Philippines saw an increase in its forest cover of roughly 5%.

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