At least 400 participants joined the tree planting and tending activity at a portion of the Botanical Garden to kick off the 58th Annual National Mine Safety and Environment Week.
The participants planted pine and dita tree saplings at an adopted area of the Botanical Garden by the Philippine Mine Safety and Environment Association. The PMSEA adopted 1,500 square meters of Botanical Garden through a Memorandum of Agreement with the city government led by Mayor Mauricio Domogan.
Mines and Geosciences Bureau Mine Safety Division head Felizardo Gacad said the PMSEA will make sure that they would develop the place along Leonard Wood Road with several enhancements that will make it presentable and eventually become the PMSEA Park to be an added tourism attraction in the city.
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The Dita tree is a flowering tree which became famous during typhoon Pepeng and Ondoy in 2009.
Dita tree saved hundreds of lives in the National Capital Region during the extreme flooding as it became refuge of victims then.
Meanwhile, this year’s conference will be highlighted by the presentation of the mining situation and practices by at least seven foreign ambassadors during the Mining Industry Symposium at the CAP John Hay Convention Center on Thursday.
Former Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary and Philippine Ambassador to Australia and Germany Delia Albert will lead the contingent of ambassadors. Australia’s Roderick Richard Campbell Smith, Brazil’s Alcides Gastao Rostand Prates, South Africa’s Agnes Nyamande-Pitso, Switzerland’s Ivo Sieber, Great Britain’s and Northern Ireland’s Stephen Lillie and China’s Liu Jianchao and Chile’s Roberto Mayorga will be joining the four day mining week where they are expected to present the mining situations in their countries including issues and concerns on mining. - (PIA/by Redjie Cawis)
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