The planting of an endemic but diminishing tree species in Mabalacat, Pampanga, which was named after that hardwood, will be a major activity in the local government-sponsored Balacat Festival. | ttorejasINQ /PDI
Mabalacat City in Pampanga has only two old Balakat trees, from which the place was named, and less than 100 trees that are 30 years old. The city is propagating more in time for its festival.
MABALACAT CITY—Planting an endemic but diminishing tree species in this city, named after that hardwood, will be a major activity in the local government-sponsored Balacat Festival. At least 75 seedlings of Balakat will be planted on March 1, the third day of the 5-day festival, said Arwin Paul Lingat, the arts, culture and tourism officer, during the news forum of the Pampanga Press Club at the Park Inn by Radisson in SM Clark in Angeles City on Wednesday.The Balakat is considered vulnerable in the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature . Aside from its sturdy wood, Balakat has several medicinal values.
Two Balakat trees, which are tall and probably the oldest, stand in front of Our Lady of Grace Parish and inside the nearby Mabalacat Institute in the city proper, according to Councilor Roland Peña, who the Inquirer requested to verify for lack of a written inventory.
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