31 DENR officials in Mindanao sacked over illegal logging:
MANILA, Philippines—Environment Secretary Ramon Paje on Saturday relieved 31 regional and provincial officials for failing to curb illegal logging in eastern and southern Mindanao more than a year after President Benigno Aquino imposed ban on logging.
"We’ve given them time to stop logging in their areas. Yet we continue to confiscate logs. They better answer for it. How come there’s still logging?’’ Paje said in a telephone interview.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has seized more than 13 million board feet of logs despite Aquino’s issuance of Executive Order No. 23 in February 2011 banning logging nationwide, he said.
The bulk of these lo...
Keep on reading: 31 DENR officials in Mindanao sacked over illegal logging
MANILA, Philippines—Environment Secretary Ramon Paje on Saturday relieved 31 regional and provincial officials for failing to curb illegal logging in eastern and southern Mindanao more than a year after President Benigno Aquino imposed ban on logging.
"We’ve given them time to stop logging in their areas. Yet we continue to confiscate logs. They better answer for it. How come there’s still logging?’’ Paje said in a telephone interview.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has seized more than 13 million board feet of logs despite Aquino’s issuance of Executive Order No. 23 in February 2011 banning logging nationwide, he said.
The bulk of these lo...
Keep on reading: 31 DENR officials in Mindanao sacked over illegal logging
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