The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA) has urged the Marcos administration to pursue mangroves planting as a measure to prevent flooding caused by sea-level rise, devastating storm surges, among other threats of climate change. PAMALAKAYA said this after the onslaught of Severe Tropical Storm ‘Paeng’in the country. The fishers’group claimed that it was under Bong Bong Marcos' late father’s regime when mangrove forests were wiped out for massive conversion of coasts into fishpond areas.

Mangroves planting for coastal defense pushed. (2022, November 4). SunStar Pampanga, p. 3.