Smart targets 1.5 M trees planted by 2010
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SMART Communications, Inc. (Smart) is close to hitting its target of planting over 1.5 million seedlings and mangrove propagules under a three-year tree planting agreement inked in 2008 with parent company Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and the PLDT-Smart Foundation together with Japan's NTT DOCOMO, Inc. "Our program partners and employee-volunteers continue to be instrumental in our campaign to increase the country's forest cover. Since 2008, they have been helping us surpass our yearly targets," said Ramon R. Isberto, Smart Public Affairs Group head.
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Smart targets 1.5 M trees planted by 2010. (2010, August 26). Malaya Business Insight, p. A8.
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Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) Smart Communications, Inc. PLDT-Smart Foundation NTT DOCOMO, Inc. Smart Public Affairs Group Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NICP) Corporate Network for Disaster Response (CNDR) Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP)
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