Residents blamed the incident on logging.
Based on a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature and BPI Foundation, Baguio City is most vulnerable to climate change with only 500 hectares of its total land area of 5,749 hectares covered with trees.
This is why some environmental groups are alarmed by SM City Baguio's plan to cut and transfer 182 alnus and pine trees for its 7-storey parking building.
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje and Baguio City Mayor Mauricio Domogan had already granted permission to SM City Baguio to cut 182 trees.
On October 27, 2011, DENR-Cordillera issued a cutting and balling permit to SM.
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'Green' parking
SM, meanwhile, insists that the 7-storey parking building will be environment-friendly with its green architecture.
It has a sky garden at the rooftop, underground water reservoir to catch rainfall and sewerage treatment system to recycle used water.
More than 3,000 signed the online petition against SM City Baguio.
This will be submitted to the office of President Benigno Aquino III and Secretary for Environmental Protection Neric Acosta.
Part of the protest is to boycott SM mall in the Philippines.
A rally will be conducted on January 20 at 2 p.m.
source: ABS-CBN NEWS
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