IPIL, ZAMBO SIBUGAY: Education and
mobilization in protecting, conserving and managing the environment and natural
resources is the present thrust of the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR), says its new release forwarded to Misamis News.
That’s why for its intensified
advocacy campaign, the aid office in this region, in coordination with PENRO
Dante A. Oporto made rounds visiting six intermediate schools in Ipil and Titay.
This regular conduct of information
dissemination benefited a total of 1,033 students from the mentioned
municipalities and well as communities, said Regional Director Arleigh J.
Adorable.
Managing the environment and
natural resources is for the present and future generation, Adorable added.
The schools visited by the DENR were
Zamboanga Sibugay National High School (ZSNHS), Aurelio Mendoza Memorial
College, Titay National High School, Marian College, Sibugay Technical
Institute, Inc., and Ipil National High School.
Information officers from the
Regional Public Affairs Office, technical services and line bureaus were the
resource speakers who taught the students about DENR’s mandate.
Also included were topics about Climate
Change: Mitigation and Adaptation
Strategies, National Greening Program, Water and Biodiversity Conservation,
Environmental Discipline, Responsible Mining, Ecological Solid Waste Management
and Disaster Risk Reduction.
ZSNHS Principal Alberto Alavaren said
his school supports Earth Care and declared their intention to establish a
two-hectare mangrove plantation along the coastal area of Brgy. Pangi in Ipil.
Convinced by the communication
strategies applied by DENR during the symposium, all the rest of school heads
also gave their respective commitments of support for nature conservation.
Each symposium ended with the
giving of the latest edition of DENR-9 Newsletter “Recursos Naturales” and
other library materials to school heads regarding the topics presented to
students.
Meanwhile, around 80 officers and
members of the Youth for Environment in Schools-Organization (YES-O) of ZSNHS
were trained by DENR-9 through “Dalaw Turo” session for nature conservation
program.
The YES-O is the youth arm of both
the DepED and the DENR to heighten pupils’ and students’ participation and
action towards environmental protection and conservation at the school
level.
As a co-curricular organization, it
implements programs, projects and activities that address various environmental
issues and concerns such as Global Warming, Climate Change Adaptation,
Deforestation, Watershed Protection, Disaster Risk Reduction, among others.