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USAID and CRS Philippines Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) works with the City Environment and Natural Resource Office (CENRO) in Borongan city to help them in protecting, conserving, and managing their mangrove nursery and mangrove sites. Renato Apillo, CENRO staff, participates in CRC capacity-building activities. Renato Apillo, CENRO staff, is tasked to collect mangrove propagules, and transfer them to planting bags. He also plants them in the mangrove area, once the mangroves are ready to be planted. For Renato, mangroves are important because they protect the people from storm surges especially during typhoons. USAID and CRS Philippines Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) project supports Borongan city climate change adaptation programs by leading CRC project activities such as improvement of use and access to climate data, climate finance, and implementation of nature-based solutions. “I believe without the mangrove trees in the coastal areas, a lot of the homes built there will have been washed out…Most coastal community members appreciate and thank us because they are now protected from storm surges…. I’m grateful to the mangroves because they protect the people every time there is a typhoon.”- Renato Apillo, City Environment and Natural Resource Office (CENRO), Barangay Maypangdan, Borongan, Philippines The USAID and CRS Philippines’ Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) Project is implemented in six cities, including Borongan city in the Philippines.

Through a Catholic Relief Services program funded by U.S. international assistance, city government staff like Renato are planting mangrove trees that protect coastal communities in the Philippines from storm surges and typhoons.

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