Coastal cruising to open Environment Month on June 5
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR VI) will celebrate the Environment Month in June in a more advocacy stirring action to further stir public's consciousness of the importance of the environment to human survival.
On June 5, 2007, the Environment Month will be opened with the activity dubbed as "Coastal Environment Cruise" which Director Lormelyn Claudio said will afford invited participants to a coastal cruise from Parola to Villa, Iloilo City.
"They will see for themselves the actual situation of our coastal areas and beaches in our once famous beaches from Fort San Pedro to Villa Beach while riding in pump boats," said Director Claudio.
The DENR VI Director said that the participants' observations and suggestions during the "coastal cruise" is important, and we will use it "as basis of our proposals for better environment programs at the coastal areas."
The month-long event is a yearly undertaking of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to remind everyone to take a more active role in making sure that the future generations will still have a better environment to live in.
Meanwhile, President Arroyo in one of her activities concerning the global effort to combat global warming has called on the urgency to educate young Filipinos on this global scourge, so it will lead to the inculcation of the "personal" discipline which is vital to check the problem.
The President called for an action plan of several components to place the Philippines in the front line of the global effort to combat global warming, starting with the incorporation into the public school curriculum of subjects dealing with global warming and climate change.
(T.Villavert/PIA)