New Filipino Law Requires All Students to Plant 10 Trees Before They Can Graduate
A new law in the Philippines will require all students to plant at least 10 trees each as a prerequisite for graduation, potentially opening the way for the planting of billions of trees in the Southeast Asian island nation.The “Graduation Legacy for the Environment Act” will require graduating students at the elementary, high school, and college levels to take part in the tradition of planting trees upon graduation while also combating global climate change. Supporters of the bill, which was mainly authored by Magdalo Party representative Gary Alejano, hope that the new legislation could see as many as 525 billion trees...
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