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Read more about the article Local officials to decide fate of trees in Dacudao canal area
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in his Sunday program Gikan sa Masa para sa Masa said that he will conduct another round of dialog between the City Engineering Office and nongovernment organizations regarding the planned cutting of some 500 trees to rehabilitate the city's main drain canal along Dacudao street.

Local officials to decide fate of trees in Dacudao canal area

City officials will deliberate this week on what to do with hundreds of trees lining the drainage canal area in Dacudao Avenue which they said is damaging the structure of the canal.

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Read more about the article Volunteers, environment group cite lapses in TreeVolution

Volunteers, environment group cite lapses in TreeVolution

Organizers of the Mindanao-wide reforestation event in Davao last week issued a public apology after a number of volunteers and participants told news organizations and swarmed the social media about the unannounced inaccessibility of the planting sites to public transport.

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Read more about the article Typhoon Pablo survivors plant 1, 500 trees to nourish Pablo-ravaged communities
FINDING SOLUTION. Loading his motorcycle with cut up woods from fallen trees caused by typhoon Pablo, this man can now rebuild his house in Osmeña village, Compostela town, Compostela Valley. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Typhoon Pablo survivors plant 1, 500 trees to nourish Pablo-ravaged communities

Typhoon Pablo survivors in the province planted not less 1,500 seedlings on Tuesday in their areas that were once flattened in December 2012.

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