Manila, July 10 -- The municipality of San Remigio is calling for volunteers to help in the establishment of a "forest library" on its 18-hectare timberland.

In an interview Thursday, Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO) chief Ruth Martinez said the local government will be planting dipterocarp, or the endangered tree species such as yakal, kamagong, and almasiga, in a timberland in Barangay Osorio II.

The project is being implemented in partnership with the Energy Development Corporation (EDC) through its Nature-based Solutions Trial Project.

"We are calling for volunteers to help us plant around 18,000 threatened dipterocarps on the area as part of rejuvenating our forest," she said.

Martinez said the EDC, as p...