The National Greening Program (NGP), the government's reforestation program and most well-funded environmental initiative, has so far planted trees in 1,005,013 hectares of land. This is 12% above the target for 2014, said Paje.
The NGP aims to plant 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares by 2016. With the current accomplishment rate, the DENR has to plant trees in around 500,000 more hectares. But the NGP has gone under fire for misreporting of accomplishment and allegations of corruption.