For 2022 alone, Nickel Asia Corp. (NAC) records 234,823 trees planted within its mining camps and has donated 185,466 seedlings to the Department of Natural Resources (DENR) in support of the government’s National Greening Program (NGP) Know more:
trees planted within its mining camps and has donatedseedlings to the Department of Natural Resources in support of the government’s National Greening Program .
The Philippine Mining Act of 1995 obliges mining companies to plant 100 trees to replace every tree they cut due to their operations. This is part of the mining industry’s rehabilitation programs embedded in the Mining Act and the mining companies’ commitment to the greening of communities where they operate.
The past year has seen an increase of requests for seedlings for fruit-bearing trees which is much more expensive to generate as compared to seedlings for forest trees.The people in the communities are more interested in fruit bearing trees to plant in NGP-identified areas
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