Tree Planting

On Thursday Grace and I went tree planting, in conjunction with Isuzu Philippines. There were about 60 people and between us we planted 1500 saplings on the Caliraya-Lumot watershed.

This is part of a concerted effort to reverse global warming and reforest the Philipines where illegal logging is still a big problem.

The people here just cut down trees to turn them into charcoal which they can then sell, possibly the only way they can earn some money. The government is too weak to enforce the legislation it has passed and so the problem continues bringing in its wake, land slides and disasters.