DILG, DENR join forces to clamp down on illegal logging

MANILA — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will cooperate to battle unlawful logging and quarrying to ensure the nation's excess timberland covers and territories.

This created after President Rodrigo Duterte requested the organizations to investigate the main drivers of record flooding in Cagayan and Isabela after the attack of tropical storm Ulysses.

In a joint assertion Saturday, Interior Spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said the DENR intended to meet with the National Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force made through Executive Order No. 23 arrangement of 2011.

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The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines were remembered for the team to help DILG, the assertion read.

"Alam kong may pandemya dad, pero ang programang ito ay hindi na makakapaghintay. Kung hindi tayo kikilos ngayon, ang itatanim natin ay mga buto ng paggunaw ng ating mundo. Ang environmental change ay nagaganap na at kailangan natin itong harapin," Malaya said.

(I know there is as yet a pandemic yet this program can't pause. In the event that we don't act now, the seedlings we should plant will add to the world's devastation. Environmental change is here and we need to confront it now.)

The representative said Interior Secretary Eduardo Año and Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu would activate any individual who could assist with halting the criminal operations where the nation's woods endure the worst part.

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As indicated by the assertion, the DILG likewise promised to help the DENR's National Greening Program, which plans to resurrect some 1.2 million hectares of thinning up top backwoods by 2022.

"Nangangako ang DILG na pakikilusin ang mga neighborhood government units, ang kapulisan, ang Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) at Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) upang makamit ang layunin ng NGP na bigyan ng bagong buhay ang mga hindi mabunga, nakalbo at naabusong kagubatan ng bansa sa pamamagitan ng pakikiisa ng mga pamayanan sa reforestation program ng DENR," Malaya said.

(The DILG guaranteed that we would work with LGUs, the police, BFP, BJMP, to accomplish NGP's objective of bringing back our thinning up top and manhandled timberlands to life by energizing behind DENR's reforestation program.)

Prior in the day, Police Chief General Debold Sinas requested a manhunt against suspected unlawful lumberjacks who terminated at cops in Cagayan area, leaving one official hurt.

The public authority has increased activities against illicit signing in Cagayan area in the wake of noteworthy flooding just fourteen days prior.

Congresspersons prior said that constant land-snatching, abuse, and unlawful signing in watersheds might have assumed a job in the monstrous flooding in Marikina and in certain zones of Luzon after Ulysses.

In any case, Malaya said that from January to October this year, the PNP has directed 6,710 enemy of illicit logging tasks and got 3,336 unlawful lumberjacks cross country. This prompted the documenting of 1,145 arguments in court against the suspects, he added.

Under Presidential Decree 705 or the Forestry Reform Code of the Philippines, he called attention to, the police likewise have the ability to address anybody got unlawfully logging.