TREE-BALLING AT QMC

Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista watches a tree-balling demonstration using QC’s newly-acquired rootball uprooter as the city government, under its “Ayos-Puno” program, embarks on a massive transplanting of some 10,000 flowering and shade trees to about half a million hectares of open space and combined developed and undeveloped parks in the city. Aside from the massive transplanting program, the city government is also spearheading the planting of some 2,000 indigenous trees at the Quezon Memorial Circle as part of a continuing effort to develop QC’s status as Metro Manila’s “green lung.” With the Mayor during the demonstration are parks development and administration department head Engr. Zaldy dela Rosa, public affairs and information services office chief Gregorio T. Bañacia and Frederika Rentoy, head of the QC environmental protection and waste management department. Precy/ Ramir/ Ej/ Maureen Quiñones, PAISO