Negros Occidental gets Green Heroes Award for environment program
The Provincial Government of Negros Occidental was honored for its environmental achievements, and presented with a Green Heroes Wall Shield by the London-based Green Organization recently.
Winners were presented with their trophies at Kensington Palace Roof Gardens in London and awarded by TV Botanist Professor David Bellamy, OBE. Negros Occidental's award was sent by National Organizer Roger Wolens to Atty. Edwin Abanil, head of the Provincial Environment Management Office, who in turn presented it to Acting Gov. Isidro P. Zayco.
Last year, Gov. Marañon personally received the Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practices from the Green Organization at the House of Commons in London.
"The effectiveness of any environmental initiative is controlled by the people in the area, for the Negrenses this means quite a turn-around of lifestyle to reforest their lands and become soldiers for their environment", stressed the judges on the success of the environment program of the province.
This is now the thirteenth year of the Green Apple Awards, established as one of the biggest environmental award schemes in the world.
Being a winner, the environment program of the Province of Negros Occidental is published with a selection of others in The Green Book, the international work of reference on environmental best practice that enables many thousands around the world to learn and benefit from the achievements of the winners, disclosed National Organizer Roger Wolens.
The Green Apple Awards are supported by the Environment Agency, the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, the Municipal Journal and several other official bodies.
The international campaign is led by The Green Organization, an independent, non-political, non-activist, non-profit environment group dedicated to recognizing, rewarding and promoting environmental best practice around the world.
"Our objective is not only to recognize and publicize various environmental endeavors, but also to help others to follow those examples. Anyone can visit the greenorganisation.info website to learn from the environmental experiences of previous winners", said Wolens.
The organizers invite entries from any council, company, community or country that is making an effort to protect or enhance the environment, with categories to cover every sector of commerce, industry, groups and local government. There were almost 1,000 entries that joined in this activity.
(Capitol News/PIA)