Declaring the Week Ending With the Last Saturday of July Each Year As Arbor Week
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Declaring the Week Ending With the Last Saturday of July Each Year As Arbor Week
Proclamation No. 129
March 5, 1955
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Proclamation No. 129Declaring the Week Ending with the Last Saturday of July Each Year as Arbor Week
- Recognizes the paramount importance of trees to the welfare and economic well-being of the country and people. (Preamble)
- Notes the wanton destruction of trees and forests due to lack of appreciation for their importance. (Preamble)
- Highlights the urgent need to promote tree consciousness, undertake tree planting campaigns, and reforest bare and denuded lands through sustained tree planting efforts involving all community elements. (Preamble)
- Proclaims the week ending with the last Saturday of July of each year as Arbor Week to be observed throughout the country with appropriate programs and actual planting of shade, ornamental, fruit, and forest trees. (Section 1)
- Designates the observance of Arbor Week under the auspices of the National Forestry Council. (Section 2)
- Empowers the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, as Chairman of the National Forestry Council, to create necessary committees to attain the objectives of this proclamation and call upon any government department, bureau, office, agency, or instrumentality for assistance and cooperation in the successful celebration of Arbor Week. (Section 2)
- Revokes Proclamation No. 30 dated July 30, 1947, as amended by Proclamation No. 41 dated September 3, 1947. (Section 3)
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Declaring the Week Ending With the Last Saturday of July Each Year As Arbor Week
Proclamation No. 129
•March 5, 1955
MALACAÑANGRESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENTOF THE PHILIPPINESManila
Proclamation No. 129
DECLARING THE WEEK ENDING WITH THE LAST SATURDAY OF JULY EACH YEAR AS ARBOR WEEK
WHEREAS, trees are of paramount importance to the welfare and economic well-being of our country and people;
WHEREAS, trees and forests continue to be wantonly destroyed because their importance is not yet sufficiently appreciated; and
WHEREAS, there is urgent need to awaken tree consciousness among our people, to undertake a vigorous campaign for the planting of trees to beautify our yards, plazas, highways, parks, etc., and to reforest our bare and denuded lands through sustained tree planting work participated in by all elements of the community;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby proclaim the week ending with the last Saturday of July of each year as Arbor Week to be observed throughout the country with appropriate programs and actual planting of shade, ornamental, fruit and forest trees.
The observance of Arbor Week shall be under the...
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