This fiscal year alone, PBSP has planted more than 97,000 native and fruit-bearing trees across 72 hectares in Luzon’s Marikina and La Mesa Watersheds, as well as the Buhisan Watershed in Cebu.

The Upper Marikina watershed was designated as a reservation in 1904 by virtue of a US colonial executive order issued by Governor General Luke Edward Wright. But the Philippine government only ...