Here's just a small sampling of what we've achieved so far.
Dangi, Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte (1985)
Since 1985, thousands of trees have been planted covering a total land area of around 9.3 hectares. The land remains forested until today, sheltering wild flora and fauna. This was our first CSR project, developing the groundwork of Plant the Planet as we now know it.
San Miguel, Mutia, Zamboanga del Norte (2005)
Old growth trees were regenerated by gathering the seedlings of hardwood trees in the area and replanting them in strategic locations. This project started on May 17, 2005 and has been able to reforest an area over 8 hectares.
Meanwhile, a hectare of land in the same barangay was donated to the Local Government of Mutia by Porfirio Soliva, the father of our founder, on February 28, 2005. The land was given to provide the community access to drinking water and irrigation of their rice fields. The said land has benefited at least a hundred households in the barangay who now have a nearby and steady source of fresh water.
Alvenda, Mutia, Zamboanga del Norte (2006)
We developed a corn and abaca farm in Alvenda, Mutia to provide training and livelihood to the local community. Interested residents were given free planting materials to start their own corn and abaca farm. Also, this project served as a pilot farm for using the sloping agricultural land technique (SALT). SALT is a farming technique that controls soil erosion, an important planting method considering 80% of the Philippines' land is sloping.
Alvenda, Mutia, Zamboanga del Norte (2007)
Plant the Planet was officially launched on October 2, 2007 with a tree planting activity to mark Chevy Centre's 32nd anniversary. Various stakeholders (i.e. employees, customers, civil servants, public officials, NGOs, and volunteers) took part in reforesting the barren 9.2 hectare land.
On their way to a remote location in Roxas, Zamboanga del Norte to deliver seedlings, the 'Plant the Planet' team passed by the hometown of the world's smallest man. Pictured here is Tito Sy. Jr., one of the employees of Chevy Centre, with Guinness Record Holder, Junrey Balawing.
Roxas, Zamboanga del Norte (2011, 2012)
We brought mahogany and coconut seedlings to a remote barangay of Roxas, Zamboanga del Norte. The seedlings were given to the barangay captain for proper distribution to consituents and monitoring. The seedling distribution was done in 2011 and 2012 in the same barangay. These plants came from our nursery, which we maintain for seedling production.
L-R Rolando Soliva, Peter Soliva, and Captain Butch Tuano with their Cessna 172 before air dropping around 500,000 seeds over the watershed area of Ormoc City.
Ormoc City (2014)
On February 26, 2014, around 500,000 mahogany, falcata, and ipil-ipil seeds were broadcasted from the air over an area of more than a thousand hectares in the watershed area of Ormoc City. We chose Ormoc City because it badly needed to be revegetated after super typhoon Yolanda destroyed or uprooted almost all their forest trees. Likewise, a severe flash flood hit the city a few years prior to the typhoon leaving many people dead and homeless.