MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, Feb.8 (PIA) -- In an effort to contribute to the preservation and protection of the environment, the Commission on Higher Education in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (CHED-ARMM) launched The Green Jihad on Monday, Feb. 07.
The launching highlighted the opening ceremony of the 2011 ARMM Solidarity Games, Academic and Cultural Competition held at the Provincial Gymnasium here.
The Green Jihad is a Muslim Environmental Advocacy Center that was organized on October 2010 with the purpose of repackaging environmentalism as a religious obligation incumbent upon those who profess Islam as their faith.
Dr. Norma Sharief, CHED-ARMM Commissioner, said the Green Jihad foot soldiers will be institutionalized as advocates for environment protection and preservation.
In addition, she announced that CHED-ARMM will be issuing a memorandum order to all higher education institutions in the region to incorporate and integrate environmental education and protection in the tertiary curricular programs.
Sharief also disclosed that all college students in the autonomous region will be required to plant one tree every year as their concrete contribution to the preservation of the environmental resources that are essential for human survival and development.
She cited this in response to Executive Order 23 signed recently by President Benigno S. Aquino III.
Aquino issued EO 23 declaring an indefinite log ban all over the country and creating an Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force to be headed by Environment and Natural Resources Secretary.
EO 23, entitled “Declaring a moratorium on the cutting and harvesting of timber in the national and residual forests and creating the Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force,” was issued in light of the widespread flooding and landslides in some parts of the country. (Apipa Bagumbaran/PIA Marawi)
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