Nurturing NATURE.

Petron’s sustained involvement in environmental campaigns is anchored on the Bataan Integrated Coastal Management Program, a comprehensive and long-term program to manage the coastal and marine resources of the province. It aims to promote sustainable development in the province, calling for the effective resolution of conflicts arising from the multiple uses of coastal and marine resources through an interactive, multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach to develop and implement a strategic environmental management plan.

The program is sustained through the partnership among the Bataan Provincial Government, the Private Sector (led by Petron), organized into a group called the Bataan Coastal Care Foundation, Inc (BCCFI) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) agency.

Among program’s major milestones to date are the institutionalization of the BICMP as an office of the Bataan Provincial Government and the establishment of a Technical Working Group which produced the updated Bataan Coastal Strategy and its implementation plan, and the Coastal Zoning and Sea-Use Plan. These provide the framework to promote sustainable development in the province, through the effective resolution of conflicts arising from the multiple uses of coastal and marine resources.

Beyond Bataan, Petron’s terminals and depots across the country have been regularly leading coastal cleanups, tree and mangrove planting, environmental awareness programs and other ecology friendly initiatives.

Petron also has a major stake in the rehabilitation of the La Mesa Watershed, the last remaining forest of its kind in Metro Manila. In 2005, we inaugurated the 1.2-kilometer Petron Fitness and Nature Trail and the 2,500-seater Petron Amphitheater at the La Mesa Ecopark inside the watershed.