World Environment Day is celebrated annually on 5 June and is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment.

Environmental restoration is the process of recovering an impaired, damaged, and/or destroyed ecosystem. Ecosystems that experience impairment or damage include oceans, lakes, streams, fields, forests, wetlands, soils, fisheries, and coastlines. Damage to ecosystems can include fires, prolonged flooding or drought, increased salinity (salt) in bodies of water, invasive (non-native) plants or wildlife, soil erosion, improper discharge of pollutants from human activity, and more. Environmental restoration projects focus on recovering an ecosystem to the point where it contains sufficient biological and physical resources needed to maintain its condition and deal with regular environmental stress (such as heavy rainfall or storms) without further human assistance.

In line with this, the James L. Gordon Council organized a tree planting program with the partnership of a non-scouting organization, 125 volunteers from different department of city government headed by Mayor Rolen C. Paulino Jr. at Olongapo CIty. 500 Narra seeds was planted on the area to promote the restoration of ecosystem in Olongapo CIty. 

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