PENRO Rivera leads Earth Day celebration

BAGAC, Bataan – New DENR PENRO Raymond Rivera, lead the full force of the DENR personnel in the province in celebration of Earth Day with the development of their pet project, the eco-tourism of the Ambon-Ambon and Limutan falls at Bgy. Binukawan, this town.

In his message during the simple program, Rivera said that, “obviously, Bataan is booming with investments, that we in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources have to give our share by developing beautiful and amazing hidden resources in the province like the Ambon-ambon and Limutan falls.”

Rivera added that, we are not only safeguarding and preserving these God-given resources but are also creating economic developments for the people of these barangays and the local government of Bagac.

More or less,100 personnel of DENR from CENRO Dinalupihan, their main office in Pilar and CENRO Bagac (host of the celebration), ”armed with shovels, gloves and sacks, trooped to the more than 6km, rough road, up and down the hills, walked to Ambon-ambon and Limutan falls. The trek is not that hard and not that long but for sure you will sweat out, but once you reach the falls, it’s paradise! With all the trees serving as canopy, making the place really cool and the refreshing waters from the falls.

The personnel were divided into 4 groups, removing plastics and other non-biodegradable wastes, while others arranged the rocks, to have some area for swimming for children, some even used some chainsaw to clear the area of large trunks of trees that hinder the smooth flow of the water coming from the falls.

Sir Ed Cabigting, DENR Supervisor of the Bataan National Park shared to the group some trivia such as; 6 municipalities are covered by the Bataan National Park, they are the municipalities of Hermosa, Orani, Samal, Abucay, Bagac and Morong. Of the 56 waterfalls in it, only 24 have so far been documented, including about 29 lagoons.