Business, green group, media plant mangrove in Tayabas Bay

Mangrove tree planting along the coast of Tayabas Bay

SARIAYA, QUEZON – A Filipino-owned seed company, an environmentalist group and Quezon journalists planted mangrove trees along the coast of Tayabas Bay to help sustain the marine protection program of the government.

The tree planting activity held last month in the coastal village of Quiling symbolized the start of the partnership between Allied Botanical Corp., a firm engaged in the supplies of hi-breed vegetables and flower seeds and Tanggol Kalikasan (Defense of Nature), a public interest legal defense center, for the protection and rehabilitation of the environment.

The company donated P300,000 to TK for the latter different environmental protection projects and programs.
The National Union of Journalists in the Philippines-Quezon chapter also joined the mangrove tree-planting which was coordinated by the Sariaya municipal agriculture office.