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TWO TASK FORCES TO BOOST ILLEGAL LOGGING CAMPAIGN
Thursday 23rd of May 2013
ILOILO CITY, May 23 (PIA) -- Two task forces to combat illegal logging in the province of Iloilo have been created and are now in full force.
The Iloilo Provincial Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force was created alongside the Regional Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force to firm up collaboration with several agencies to strengthen the campaign against illegal logging.
DENR Regional Executive Director Adeluisa Siapno said the provincial task force will complement the efforts of the regional task force, to protect the resources within forestlands from destruction.
“This is a strategic move we are making to further protect our forest resources. It ...
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13Dec2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Dec. 13 (PIA) -- Ang National Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force (NAILTF) gindula sa listahan ang Rehiyon 12 nga may ara nga illegal logging hotspot. Si Dr. Noel Duncan, puno sang Forest Resources Development Division sang Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Rehiyon 12, nagsiling nga ang ini nga pagpanginwala subay sa yearend report nga ginpaguwa sang nagligad nga semana sang NAILTF sa isa ka pagtililipon sa Clark Pampanga. Ang ini nga daku nga...
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04Nov2012BUTUAN CITY, Nov. 4 (PIA) -- The Department of environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Caraga Region is adopting the technology of bar-coding to easily track the movement of logs from the source to the wood-processing plants (WPP) to stop illegal logging activities. A bar-code is an optical machine-readable representation of date relating to the object to which it is attached. Bar-codes represented data by varying the widths and spacing of parallel lines. “We are adopting the bar-code as ...
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03Oct2012BUTUAN CITY, Oct 3 (PIA) -- A Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) official here has offered solutions to end the illegal logging problem in the region and asked members of the civil society, religious group, and local government executive officials for their total support in the campaign. Regional Executive Regional Director for Caraga Region Marlo D. Mendoza, who is also DENR assistant secretary, said illegal logging which has bound the lives of many people to poverty in Car...
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28Sep2012CEBU CITY, Sept 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7) will strictly enforce the “one-strike” policy on illegal logging to all field officials in Central Visayas. The policy covers any illegal cutting or harvesting of forest products within the area of jurisdiction of a certain field official, said Isabelo Montejo, executive director of DENR-7. The department will continue to establish closer ties with local government units (LGUs) and other law enforceme...
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20Sep2012QUEZON CITY, Sept 20 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has commended the efforts of the country’s professional foresters for organizing a high-level meeting of local top foresters to discuss how the forestry profession can elevate its role in the government’s bid to stop illegal logging and improve the local wood-based industry by promoting the National Greening Program (NGP). Local top foresters attending the meeting are from the academe, government, and ...
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02Sep2012BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 2 (PIA) -- The local government here signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with several government agencies to intensify campaign to stop illegal logging activities. Butuan City Mayor Ferdinand M. Amante, Jr. signed the MOU with the different participating line agencies represented by its regional directors for Oplan Logging: Likas, Lunas, Lakas on August 23 at the Indigay Hall of Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort. The local government of Butuan LGU partners with the re...
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28Aug2012ISABELA CITY, Basilan, Aug 28 (PIA) -- More than six hectares of trees were discovered destroyed in the forested area of Lamitan City. Following information received by Lamitan, Mayor Roderick Furigay immediately instructed the Office of City Environment and Natural Resources (OCENR) to check on alleged mass illegal cutting of trees at the reforested area of Lamitan “water shed” in Upper Arco. The OCENR, together with the military and the police proceeded to the area to verify the info...
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17Aug2012STO. TOMAS, Batangas, Aug 17 (PIA) -- Six hundred twenty-eight flitches or beams of illegal lumber had been confiscated in Barangay San Roque of this town in an apprehension campaign by the authorities. The joint operation was conducted by the Provincial Government Task Force Likas Yaman, Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (DENR-CENRO) and the Batangas Philippine National Police. A resident of Brgy. San Roque owns the 5,581 boa...
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25Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 25 (PIA) -- Police authorities in Caraga Region have conducted a coordinating conference with other agencies involved in the implementation of Executive Order 23, or the total log ban. This was developed to strengthen the cooperation between the regulatory body, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the enforcement arm, the Philippine National Police (PNP), to stay focused on the task at hand. As a result, an operation was launched against illegal l...
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20Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 20 (PIA) -- Operatives of the anti-illegal logging task force-Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have confiscated 1,396 undocumented lumber products worth about P373,000 during a raid in the remote barangay in Lankilaan, Trento, Agusan del Sur on Wednesday, July 18. Reports said the raiding team found several pieces of lumber wood products of lauan and yakal species scattered in several places when they arrived in that barangay. Trento Police Station hea...
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19Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 19 (PIA) -- Police Regional Office (PRO)-13 on Tuesday conducted a seminar on anti-illegal logging in pursuit of the government's drive to stop illegal logging activities nationwide. This is in line with Executive Order 23 issued by President Aquino, implementing the indefinite log ban and creating an Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force to be headed by Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon Paje. President Aquino also tasked Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Direc...
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12Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 12 (PIA) -- The Anti-Illegal Task Force of the country has vowed to stop illegal logging operations continuously proliferating in Caraga Region. This is the statement of retired MGen. Renato Miranda, chief of the task force organized by President Benigno S. Aquino III through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), in an interview over a morning radio program here on Wednesday. Miranda said they are here in the region not only to stop illegal logging opera...
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08Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 8 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon JP Paje had pulled out his top key official in the National Greening Program (NGP) Mario D. Mendoza on Thursday, to head DENR-Caraga after he relieved its regional director, Leonardo R. Sibbaluca, over unabated illegal logging activities. Mendoza, who works as Assistant Secretary for Special Projects at the Office of Secretary Paje, said he has left several unfinished projects at the central...
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04Jul2012BUTUAN CITY, July 4 (PIA) -- The campaign against illegal logging waged by the police provincial office of Agusan del Norte paid off as its personnel led by Director PSSupt. Eugenio B Paguirigan chanced upon a sizable pile of what was believed to be illegally cut logs in one of their recent police operations. Reports from the said police office had it that Paguirigan’s team who were doing anti-illegal operations along Agusan River, particularly at the vicinity of Brgy. Ambacon, Las Nieves tow...
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02Jul2012SURIGAO CITY, Hulyo 2 (PIA) -- Gidawat sa Malacañang kagahapon Domingo ang lakang ni Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DEBR) Secretary Ramon Paje sa pagpapha sa 31 ka mga opisyales sa DENR gikan sa ilang mga katungdanan gumikan sa kapakyas niini sa pagpakgang sa mga illegal activities sa ilang mga tagsa-tagsa ka mga erya. Sa press briefing sa radyo dzRB Radyo ng Bayan, si Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte miingon nga suportado sa gobyerno ang lakang ni Paje ug giaw...
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20Jun2012SURIGAO CITY, Hunyo 20 (PIA) – Si Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino III miingon nga ang administrasyon nagpabilin nga naningkamot sa tumong niini nga kampanya batok sa illegal logging aron maseguro ang restorasyon ug preserbasyon sa mga kalasangan sa nasod alang sa mga umaabot nga mga henerasyon. Sa iyang mensahe atol sa selebrasyon sa 25th Anniversary sa Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) didto sa Heroes Hall sa Malacañang Palace kagahapon Martes, si Pangulong Aquino miingon n...
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11Jun2012BUTUAN CITY, June 11 (PIA) –- Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo is here in the city today to conduct an investigation on the confiscation of logs last June 3, 2012. Earlier report from the city government said elements from the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC), Philippine National Police (PNP), Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the city government here intercepted Sunday night, a large volume of illegal logs...
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18Apr2012STA. CRUZ, Laguna, April 18 (PIA) – Some 200,000 board feet of assorted lumber and machineries valued at P18 million were seized recently by members of the Laguna police force in Laguna in the conduct of Oplan Task Force Berde. The operation also led to the arrest of 11 persons, and the dismantling of eight (8) small scale illegal logging operations in the area. Aerial surveillance and water borne operations were conducted by the said task force in the municipalities of Cavinti...
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02Apr2012DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan, April 2 (PIA) -- The National Anti-Illegal Task Force is set to inspect the extent of illegal logging activities in the forest areas of Mangatarem, Pangasinan and some parts of Zambales province, on April 3. The task force, led by Ret. MGen. Renato Miranda and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Regional Office will join the task force to personally view the national concern on illegal logging. Two weeks ago, the DENR and residents of Mangatarem...
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29Mar2012BUTUAN CITY, March 29 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has strengthened its patrol operation in known “hot spots” of illegal logging activities particularly in Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Sur in Caraga Region to discourage timber smugglers from transporting undocumented cut logs particularly during the Holy Week. “We are strengthening our guards at the frontlines particularly in areas known to have records of illegal logging activities in the past,”...
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22Mar2012BUTUAN CITY, Mar. 22 (PIA) -- Joint forces of national armed and environmental authorities confiscated an estimated 1.1 million board feet of logs and fletches, worth about P14.9 million here in Caraga region. These operations to bust illegal logging activities and environmental laws violations were done together by the Philippine National Police, Department of Natural Resources and the Armed Forces of the Philippines. They were also assisted by the Presidential An...
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13Mar2012CEBU, March 13 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7) in Central Visayas has intensified operations of the National Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force (NAILTF) that claims all logs and lumbers confiscated and found to have been derived from the natural and residual forests of the country are considered property of the state. Natural and residual forests are forests composed of indigenous trees, not planted by man, DENR explained. ...
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09Mar2012ILOILO CITY, March 9 (PIA6) -- A regional task force mandated to take the lead in the anti-illegal logging campaign in the region is pushing for the inclusion of the Department of Justice as its member. The Regional Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force-Western Visayas through a resolution requested the National Anti-Illegal Task Force for the inclusion of the DOJ as its regular member to strengthen the litigation of cases against violators of forestry laws. The request was fu...
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07Mar2012MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, March 7 (PIA) -- The drive to curb illegal logging here is gaining ground as the elements of the 65th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army confiscated anew assorted sizes of lumbers and saw machine on Saturday afternoon. The confiscation of some 400 board feet of good lumbers, one unit of saw machine with TD-140 diesel engine and complete accessories, and one metal axle blade was the result of the raid conducted by the 65IB’s Scout Platoon led by 2...
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23Feb2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Feb 23 (PIA) -- Police in a municipality here recently intercepted a six-by-six truck loaded with assorted cut logs of about 1,000 board feet, with an estimated market value of P40,000. The La Union Police Provincial Office reported that the incident took place in Barangay Castro, Sudipen. The truck with plate number ZFU 461 was allegedly driven by Benedicto Micua of Barangay General Prim West, Bangar, this province. Initial investi...
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14Feb2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, Feb. 13 (PIA) -- Cagayan Valley environment regional executive director Forester Benjamin Tumaliaun has urged local chief executive and other local officials to help curb illegal logging activities within the forest covers in their areas of jurisdiction. “It is very sad to think that there are some municipalities in Cagayan that give lukewarm efforts to curb illegal logging activities in the jurisdiction. How I wish that they will have the passion, fervor, commitm...
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12Feb2012BAGABAG, Nueva Vizcaya, February 12(PIA) -- Police authorities here recently recovered sawn lumbers stockpiled at a lot in Barangay Tuao South in this town. Police Chief Inspector Jeric Marcelo said the 1,147 board feet of sawn GMelina lumbers were found on a lot owned by Oscar Lumicao, 51, a government employee who reported the presence of said lumbers to authorities. “We believe that the lumbers which were cut in various sizes already were transported from the mountai...
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23Jan2012LEGAZPI CITY, Jan 23 (PIA/Navforsol) -- Naval Forces Southern Luzon and Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) Quezon continue its anti illegal-logging efforts where it left off last year with the discovery of new modus of illegal loggers and confiscation of 42 pieces or 1,773 board feet of Malaruhat hardwood at Magallanes, Dinahican, Infanta, Quezon on January 16. Said logs were initially spotted along the river inlet at said place. The following day, ...
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19Apr2011DAVAO CITY, April 19 (PIA) – The Provincial Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force of Davao del Sur is acting upon wood processing plant applications for clearance to operate, strictly conforming to the provisions of Executive Order No. 23. Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) chief Glen Adonis Rico said the task force has deliberated and endorsed to the regional task force ten applications of wood processing plants from Davao del Sur and Davao City. Rico said the...
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