{"id":312538,"date":"2019-11-21T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=312538"},"modified":"2019-11-21T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:00:16","slug":"sis-students-help-mina-with-tree-restoration-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-students-help-mina-with-tree-restoration-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS students help MINA with tree restoration campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312539\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SIS-MINA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"785\" height=\"523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-312539\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan International School students trooped to Micro Beach in Garapan yesterday to plant native trees on the shorelines of Saipan, as part of the Micronesia Islands Nature Alliance\u2019s \u201cBring Back Our Trees\u201d campaign. (Iva Maurin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan International School students are stepping up to help abate the effects of climate change one tree at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Over 40 SIS students trooped to Micro Beach in Garapan yesterday to plant native trees on the shorelines of Saipan, as part of the Micronesia Islands Nature Alliance\u2019s \u201cBring Back Our Trees\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor our generation, we are left with a world that is broken with climate change,\u201d said SIS student Annamarie Devey, who helped plant about 30 native trees with other SIS students. \u201cClimate change is important. Don\u2019t deny it and try to get involved as much as you can. It is really up to us to save Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MINA\u2019s original goal was to plant 300 native trees to replace the ones uprooted by super typhoons Soudelor in 2015 and Yutu in 2018. However, with the many community organizations and school groups, like SIS, that volunteered to help restore the trees, MINA had already planted double that target, with over 600 trees now planted around the island. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from planting trees, the students also met scientists from Guam who are on the island for the Terrestrial Conservation Conference and Workshop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is good to get the students out of the classroom,\u201d said SIS science teacher April Liske-Clark. \u201cThey are learning about evolution and DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid] right now, so tree planting and introducing species, and seeing how that can relate to species diversity in the plants, could at least educate them a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liske-Clark also said that having experienced the traumatic effects of Super Typhoon Yutu, they wanted to make sure that they give back and help the island recover.<\/p>\n<p>Before the tree planting, MINA program manager Jolly Ann Cruz and MINA\u2019s Tasi Watch ranger Daniel \u201cSowm\u201d Kaipat talked about the role of trees in providing food and oxygen, as well as in controlling soil erosion and protecting coral from damage, among other benefits of trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan International School students are stepping up to help abate the effects of climate change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[554,699],"class_list":["post-312538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-mina","tag-sis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}