Miss Earth 2017 Karen Ibasco joins tree planting activity to help BINHI reach its 10 million trees goal

Miss Earth 2017 Karen Ibasco is living up to her title, indeed.

She recently joined some 200 employees, executives and partner organizations of the Energy Development Corporation as they moved toward reaching their goal of planting 10 million trees.

Uh huh, the beauty queen was among those who planted Balite, Tabgay, Taruy, Talo-ot, Pili and Kube trees to help grow the forest back in Negros Island.

More than 2.5 million trees have already been planted over 3,000 hectares in Negros Island alone. The EDC has planted over 6.3 million seedlings with assistance from 149 of its partners from 16 regions all over the Philippines.

Director for Lopez Memorial Museum, Cedie Lopez-Vargas said BINHI values the importance of the existence trees for the humans and the earth itself.

BINHI is EDC's forest restoration program that aims to bring back to abundance premium endangered native trees and to bridge forest gaps through a holistic, scientific, and multi-pronged approach.

“With BINHI, we celebrate trees and how vital they are to sustaining life on earth. Trees are the reason humans even exist in the world and are critical to our survival - our BINHI Program knows this,” said  Lopez-Vargas.

“We don’t plant trees just for corporate social responsibility. We plant trees because we need to; their last breath may well be our last too,” added Lopez-Vargas.

BINHI is EDC's forest restoration program that aims to grow back the abundance of native trees and to bridge forest gaps, the corporation is geared to reach its goal to have 10 million trees planted. — Jannielyn Ann Bigtas/LA, GMA News