Under a new law, students must plant 10 trees before they can graduate elementary, high school and college
Under the new Bill, students graduating elementary school, high school, and college in the Philippines must plant at least ten tree seedlings in areas such as forests, mangroves, and indigenous territories.
Here’s one way to plant 175 million trees within a year: get young people to do it for school.
On May 15, the Philippine Congress officially passed a Bill stating that all students from elementary school, high school, and college (roughly equivalent to primary school, secondary school and university) must plant at least 10 trees in order to graduate, CNN reported.
The trees can be planted in either forest, mangroves...