One Meralco plants 125,000 mangroves on World Wetlands Day

One Meralco Foundation (OMF), the social development arm of the Manila Electric Co.

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(Meralco), celebrates this year’s World Wetlands Day by planting and nurturing 125,000 native mangroves in Del Carmen in Siargao Islands, Surigao del Norte.

This significant initiative under OMF’s environmental program One For Trees (OFT), in partnership with the local government of Del Carmen and people’s organization Kaanib ng mga Mangingisda at Magsasaka ng Numancia (KAMAMANA), aims to uphold the importance of wetlands located in the western part of the island.

The groups joined hands for this initiative in observance of World Wetlands Day with the theme, “Wetlands and Human Wellbeing.”