In an effort to foster love and care for the earth, a new bill has been passed in the Philippines that requires students to plant 10 trees each before graduating.

 

为了培养孩子们对地球的关爱与呵护，菲律宾近日通过了一项新法案，要求每个学生在毕业前都种植10棵树。

 

The Philippines has lost more than 30% of its forest cover due to illegal logging, but the new bill means that the younger generation can help to reverse the issue. Under the new initiative, 175 million new trees could be planted by students each year. If only 10% of them survive, that means that 525 billion trees could flourish over the course of one generation.

 

According to the details outlined in the bill, the rule applies to all students in order to graduate primary school, high school, and college. Trees can be planted in either forests, mangroves, reserves, urban areas, abandoned mining sites, or in indigenous¹ territory.

 

In fact, this isn't the only positive initiative that involves the younger generation.

 

One school in India made its students pay their "school fees" by collecting, bringing to school, and recycling plastic waste that was lying across the town. This type of initiative helped raise awareness² about plastic waste in Asian countries. It also allowed more students to seek education and even helped the students to earn some money by recycling the plastic so they wouldn't have to resort to child labor³ in order to survive.

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