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Iloilo plants 10,000 trees for greener future

More than 10,000 seedlings were planted simultaneously across Iloilo on Thursday, June 25, as the provincial government marked Philippine Arbor Day and advanced its goal of becoming a “forest province” by 2044. The provincewide activity mobilized 2,505 Barangay Service Point Officers, with each officer tasked to plant four mangrove, indigenous, or