{"id":19785,"date":"2012-06-20T08:31:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearwaterphilippines.com\/wordpress\/?p=19785"},"modified":"2012-06-20T08:31:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T08:31:58","slug":"aquino-steps-up-drive-vs-illegal-logging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clearwaterphilippines.com\/resort\/2012\/06\/aquino-steps-up-drive-vs-illegal-logging\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino steps up drive vs illegal logging"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has ordered various concerned agencies to strengthen government efforts in curbing illegal logging and ensure the restoration and preservation of the country’s forests for the benefit of the future generations.
\nThe President directed the departments of environment, justice, and interior and local government to discuss measures on how to improve and strengthen the campaign against illegal cutting and harvesting of timber.
\n \u201cThere are people who are not taking our log ban seriously and continue to defy it. They even conspire with members of government. Because of this, I ordered the Department of Justice, Department of Interior and Local Government and DENR to improve anti-illegal logging campaign and make sure that these people will be convicted,\u201d he said during the silver anniversary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Malaca\u00f1ang.
\n\u201cI also asked the Bureau of Corrections to reserve more space in jail for these illegal loggers. I expect them to arrest and convict more illegal loggers every month,\u201d he added.
\nPresident Aquino in February last year issued Executive Order 23 declaring and indefinite log ban and creating an Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force headed by the DENR head.
\nThe President reiterated his commitment to protect the environment and plant more trees in line with the government\u2019s National Greening Program (NGP).
\nThe NGP was launched by Aquino last year as the government\u2019s largest greening program, aiming to plant 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares nationwide in five years.
\nAquino planted the 100 millionth seedling produced for the NGP called tindalo (Afzelia rhomboidea). The seedling came from the seed of the 65-year-old Tindalo tree, which was planted by then President Manuel Quezon in 1938. The tree stands at the Bacolod Public Plaza.
\n\u201cIf we adopt the turtle pace reforest program of the past administration, it will take us 280 years to restore the forest\u2026Under the NGP, we will double the efforts in tree planting within six years\u2026In the first year, we have planted 89.6 million trees in 128,600 hectares of land,\u201d he said.
\nHe said he will convince Budget Secretary Florencio Abad to increase the budget for NGP.
\nPresident Aquino also witnessed the signing of two Memoranda of Agreements (MOA) between Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm) Governor Mujiv Hataman and the DENR on the delineation of the Armm\u2019s forest boundaries and on the conduct of cadastral survey in the region.
\nUnder the MOA, the DENR-national will assist the DENR-Armm in establishing a permanent boundary between its timberlands and alienable and disposable lands \u201cin order to prevent activities that may be detrimental to its forests.\u201d
\nThe cadastral survey, meanwhile, will hasten the processing and issuance of land titles to the rightful claimants of public lands within the region.
\nThe DENR turned over two checks amounting to P44 million and P377 million as financial assistance to Armm for forestland delineation and cadastral survey, respectively.
\nHataman also received a P11-million check for the first tranche of the P49.6-million fund assistance for the implementation of the NGP in the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
\n5-million donation for environmental heroes
\nAdditional P5-million endowment fund was also allocated for the families of DENR employees who have died while performing their duty in protecting the environment.
\nThe fund will be administered by the Alay sa Anak ng Bayani (Alab) ng Kalikasan Foundation Inc. of which former Chief Justice Reynato Puno will serve as chairman of the Board of Trustees.
\nThe seed fund for the foundation amounts to P314,241 donated by the Civil Service Commission in September 2011 derived from the proceeds of a fundraising fun run event.
\nTo date, 14 DENR employees and environmentalists have been killed under the Aquino administration, DENR Butuan employee Ricardo Magallanes being the most recent on June 1.
\n“This series of events has a chilling effect on various environmental groups,” Senator Alan Peter Cayetano said.<\/p>\n

He cited the case of the illegal logging operations discovered inside the 13,800-hectare forest traversing Zambales and the Pangasinan town of Mangaterem.
\nThe senator said the Aquino administration’s call for environmental protection should be matched by measures that will protect those who respond to the call.
\nTo abate the killings, Cayetano suggested the creation of a joint DENR and Department of Justice (DOJ) task force to investigate the deaths and recommend measures to counter the deadly tactics of the syndicates and unscrupulous businessmen.
\nCayetano said that with local agencies manning the front lines, it is the responsibility of the National Government to provide all the support in the campaign particularly against illegal loggers and miners.
\nAdopt-an-estero program
\nAlso in the event, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje presented to President Aquino 40 new partners in its \u201cadopt-an-estero\u201d or water body program intended to enhance private-public sector partnership to rehabilitate the degraded waterways in the country.
\nThe program comprises of 36 private companies including four mining companies and four local chief executives.
\nPaje said the new partners have committed to restore water bodies in different parts of Calabarzon region, Pangasinan province and San Juan River in Metro Manila.
\nAmong the 40 new partners include Absolut Distillers Inc., Amkor Technology Phils. Inc., Antel Holdings Inc., AP Renewable Inc., Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific of Manila Inc., Cathay Pacific Steel Corp., Central Azucarera Don Pedro Inc., Clean Echo Techwin Inc., Cleanway Technology Corp., CMPC & BEVCO Philippines Inc., Consolidated Distillers of the Far East Inc., First Gas Power Corp, Holcim, Jetti Petroleum Inc., and Horizon Land Property Development Corp.
\nhttp:\/\/www.sunstar.com.ph\/manila\/local-news\/2012\/06\/19\/aquino-steps-drive-vs-illegal-logging-227662<\/p>\n

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