VECO lauded for support to save Buhisan watershed

CEBU, Philippines - The Philippine Business for Social Progress-Visayas acknowledged the Visayan Electric Company’s support for the Save the Buhisan Watershed Project wherein the latter made P19.4 million donation.

The power distributor is the single biggest donor to fund the reforestation park project in the Central Cebu Protected Landscape where the Buhisan dam is situated.

Earlier, PBSP and VECP entered into a Memorandum of Agreement for the rehabilitation, protection and conservation of the CCPL or Cebu hilly lands and Mactan Island.

PBSP gifted VECO through its corporate communications chief Ethel Natera, a seedling called “Banilad tree.”

The Buhisan Watershed and Forest Reserve is one of the five protected areas within the 29,062 hectare CCPL. It is a facility of MCWD in Barangay Buhisan that provides safe drinking water to Cebu communities.

The other four protected areas are Mananga and Kotkot-Lusaran Watershed and Forest Reserves and Central Cebu and Sudlon National Parks, where VECO employees have been planting seedlings of Cebu’s native trees since 2009.

The Save the Buhisan Water Project aims to contribute to a sustainable water supply for Metro Cebu, improve the quality of life of the poor families by mainstreaming environment-friendly livelihood activities and promote the Buhisan watershed as an excellent eco-tourism destination. (FREEMAN)