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==[[Tawi-Tawi News]]==
==[[Tawi-Tawi News]]==
'''ARMMAA 2012 reels off'''
'''DENR-ARMM pursues greening program'''
*Source: http://www.tawitawi.net/armmaa-2012-reels-off/
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1521334025588
*APRIL 8, 2012
*Tuesday 10th of April 2012
:by  Bong Garcia
:by  (EOR/APB-PIA 10)




LAMITAN CITY, Basilan — The 2012 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Athletic Association (ARMMAA) meet kicked off Saturday with officials encouraging the athletes “to aim for the best.”
MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, April 10 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DENR-ARMM) is engaging in a massive region-wide reforestation under the National Greening Program (NGP).  


The week-long athletic competition is being participated by some 6,000 athletes composed of 12 athletic delegations coming from the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi and the cities of Lamitan and Marawi.
“We are vigorously pursuing the implementation of the NGP which seeks to address poverty reduction, food security, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation,” said DENR-ARMM Secretary Kahal Kedtag during the 1st ARMM Summit on Environmental Protection held here recently.  


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He said the DENR-ARMM is set to produce 5,296,500 seedlings for the 2011-2012 implementation of the program.  


The largest athletic contingent is from the province of Tawi-Tawi.
According to him, these seedlings will be planted in 2,500 hectares of denuded and open forestland within the region’s five provinces, namely Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.  


“Aim high and aim for the best,” Armm officer-in-charge Governor Mujiv Hataman told the athletes.
It can be recalled that DENR Secretary Ramon Paje and ARMM OIC-Governor Mujiv Hataman inked an agreement earlier this year to ensure the full implementation of the NGP in the region.  


Hataman encouraged the athletes to set a goal not just in participating in the 2012 ARMMAA but to be able to reach to the Palarong Pambansa and possibly in the Olympics.
A flagship program of President Benigno S. Aquino III, the greening program involves the growing of 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares of lands nationwide from 2011 to 2016.
 
Hataman also enjoined them to be instruments of peace as this year’s sports competition is themed: “Bridging Peace, Unity and Development through Sports.”
 
“Let sportsmanship and discipline be the order of the day,” Basilan Congressman Jim Salliman, the elder brother of Hataman, told the athletes.
 
Lamitan City Mayor Roderick Furigay said the hosting of the ARMMAA 2012 gives them the opportunity to showcase the best of the city especially in the field of tourism.
 
“We may not provide you excellent facilities but we will offset it with warm hospitality,” Furigay said.
 
Lamitan City has pristine beaches and beautiful falls like the Bulingan Falls.
 
Furigay has thanked Hataman and Salliman for their full support to the City Government in the hosting of ARMMAA 2012.
 
The holding of this year’s ARMMAA is the second time this city played hosts.
 
The first time Lamitan played hosts to ARMMAA was in 2005 when it was still a municipality.


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