MANGROVE RESTORATION

Following her attendance to the climate change forum in Marrakech, Greece, Environment Secretary Gina Lopez (in dark glasses) announced the massive planting of mangroves under the Enhanced National Greening Program, recalling how a couple, Cerilo and Ester del Rosario, had been saved from the storm surge brought about by super typhoon Yolanda by clinging to mangrove stands in front of their house in Brgy. Rawis, Anibong, Tacloban City. Right photo shows Lopez pointing to a bag which Ester had left hanging from the mangrove tree she clung to until the storm subsided. ###