Cutting of trees in REINA continues
Aside from making REINA a transhipment for logs, according to Manila Bulletin newspaper of 4 November 2006, illegal cutting of trees continue in REINA towns. Please see news item below.
Wonder when will we ever learn about the harmful effects to environment and people the indiscriminate or illegal cutting of trees. REINA not only a transhipment point of logs but also source of illegally-cut logs? The 2005 flashfloods which destroyed thousand of lives and million pesos worth of properties in REINA, already forgotten?
Rudy
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Reyes orders strict log ban in three towns in Quezon
Saturday, November 4, 2006, Manila Bulletin
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Angelo Reyes yesterday ordered the strict implementation of the log ban in the municipalities of Real, Infanta and General Nakar in Quezon province following reports that rampant timber poaching has returned to these towns in the Sierra Madre mountain range.
In a department order dated Nov. 2, Reyes ordered the Department of Natural Resources (DENR)-Calabarzon executive director Antonio Principe to ban the cutting of trees and transport of logs, lumber and other forest products in the three towns, known collectively as REINA.
The DENR chief also banned the transport of retrieved logs, stumps and roots of fallen trees during the flashfloods in December, 2004.
However, Reyes said the transport of current stock of inventoried furniture made from drifted stumps or roots will be allowed under existing rules and regulations of the department.
Relative to the order, Reyes directed the DENR regional office to conduct an inventory of current stock of furniture manufactured out of retrieved stumps or roots to serve as basis for the issuance of transport documents.
Principe was also directed to establish more multisectoral monitoring checkpoints in the log banimposed areas and other strategic places and to strengthen the operation of the multi-sectoral monitoring checkpoint in Barangay Magsaysay in Siniloan, Laguna by providing more manpower as well as financial support.