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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaE-8rlXGY

TITLE: Illegal logging endangers south Philippines

AUTHOR: Al Jazeera

DATE PUBLISHED: Jan 22, 2012

KEY INFO: When a tropical storm struck the south of the Philippines in December, killing more than 1,000 people, illegal logging was blamed for making the damage much worse.

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Illegal logging endangers south Philippines

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em1eRDsXD4U

TITLE: Born to be Wild: Effects of deforestation in the Philippines

AUTHOR: GMA Public Affairs

DATE PUBLISHED: May 15, 2019

KEY INFO: Deforestation causes desertification of lands in Surigao, Philippines.

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Born to be Wild: Effects of deforestation in the Philippines

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State of the World's Forests 2011  Regenerating Forests in the Philippines (Researched By: Joshua J. Bellavita)

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcOIKgoykcQ

TITLE: State of the World's Forests 2011 Regenerating Forests in the Philippines

AUTHOR: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

DATE PUBLISHED: August 24, 2015

KEY INFO: Presented in this video is the vital role of local communities in managing, conserving and developing forests. In particular, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) partnered with the Philippines Government to promote ANR (Assisted Natural Regeneration) as a way of regenerating the forests.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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State of the World's Forests 2011  Regenerating Forests in the Philippines

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(RESEARCHED BY: Sison, Raphael Lorenzo C.)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2-6ygzEy3o

TITLE: Lawmaker blames rampant illegal logging as cause of severe flooding in Davao Del Norte

AUTHOR: UNTV News and Rescue

DATE PUBLISHED: Feb. 2, 2024

KEY INFO: Illegal logging is the primary issue of deforestation. It causes severe flooding and environmental damage in the lands of Davao Del Norte.

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Lawmaker blames rampant illegal logging as cause of severe flooding in Davao Del Norte

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(RESEARCHED BY: Sison, Raphael Lorenzo C.)

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https://philippinerevolution.nu/2024/02/07/mining-and-deforestation-cause-flooding-and-landslides-in-davao/

TITLE: Mining and deforestation cause flooding and landslides in Davao

AUTHOR: Philippine Revolution Web Central-PRWC

DATE PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2024

KEY INFO: Due to the ongoing deforestation in the area of Davao, it led to landslides and floods in most parts of the city.

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PRWC | Philippine Revolution Web Central

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For almost a month now, the Davao and Caraga regions have been suffering from flooding and landslides caused by rains brought by strong winds followed by storm conditions. As of February 2, 772,000 individuals were recorded affected and 409,000 were displaced from their communities. In the last report, 17 people died, including a family buried in a landslide in Barangay Mt. Diwata, Monkayo on January 18.

Millions worth of crops were damaged and many roads and bridges were destroyed. According to data from the National Risk Reduction and Management Council on February 4, damages to crops in Davao and Caraga have reached ₱173.79 million. Most affected were farmers in Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte. Widest hit were rice fields.

Damage to infrastructure meanwhile reached ₱27.05 million in Region IX. Floods and landslides destroyed bridges and farm-to-market roads that are often weak or poorly constructed along parts cut off from mountainsides.

Mindanao-based democratic and environmental groups blame the damage and tragedy on ongoing destructive mining operations, mostly foreign-owned, and deforestation on the island. In 2019, the Mines and Geoscience Bureau issued more than 100 permits for mining in the Davao region alone. It covers more than 32,000 hectares of mountains in Davao Oriental; over 15,000 hectares in Davao del Sur and quarry operations in Davao City.

In addition are state-sanctioned operations to plunder the Pantaron mountains, the largest mountain range in Mindanao.

Among those named by the groups are three mining companies in the protected Mt. Hamigitan in Davao Oriental (Sinophil Mining & Trading Corporation, Hallmark Mining Corporation, Austral-Asia Link Mining Corporation); the St. Augustine Gold and Copper Ltd focused on the King-king Copper Gold Project in Pantukan and the adjacent towns of Compostela Valley/Davao de Oro; and three other mining companies in Talaingod, Davao del Norte (One Compostela Valley Minerals, Inc, Phil. Meng Di Mining & Development Corporation, Metalores Consolidated, Inc.)

Among those named, the one with the largest coverage is Metalores Consolidated Inc, having been granted a permit to plunder over 15,000 hectares of forests and mountains in Talaingod. Not as expansive, but as destructive is the open-pit mining of the King-king Project of St. Augustine Gold and Copper Ltd, owned by the Villar dynasty, one of the country's largest bureaucrat-capitalist families.

Lumad groups and farmers have long been resisting firmly these mining operations and its accompanying deforestation because of the serious damage these cause to their communities, the environment and the people of Mindanao.

Where are the funds?

Davao City itself is not safe from calamity, where 15 relatively low-lying barangays were submerged in the flood. Water overflowed from six tributary rivers of the Davao-Bukidnon River that flow from Pantaron in the San Fernando, Bukidnon area.

As of January 31, it was reported that 8,000 people were forced to evacuate due to neck-deep floods in some areas.

Because of this, questions arose concerning the use of funds poured by the Department of Public Works and Highways in the past three years to the office of Paolo Duterte, congressman of the city's first district. It was recently exposed that allocations worth ₱51 billion for Duterte's eldest son were inserted into the budgets from 2020 to 2022. Budget insertions are exempt from public scrutiny. The allocations are also far bigger than the usual allocation to a congressman, or even a senator.

Davao City is lorded over by the Duterte dynasty. In addition to Paolo, who is representative of its largest and central district, his youngest brother Sebastian is the mayor of the city, while his wife January Navares is the captain of Barangay Catalunan-Grande and his son Omar is the captain of Barangay Buhangin (where flooding was severe).

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PRWC " Mining and deforestation cause flooding and landslides in Davao

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For almost a month now, the Davao and Caraga regions have been suffering from flooding and landslides caused by rains brought by strong winds followed by storm conditions. As of February 2, 772,000 individuals were recorded affected and 409,000 were displaced from their communities. In the last report, 17 people died, including a family buried [...]

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(RESEARCHED BY: Sison, Raphael Lorenzo C.)

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URL:https://gayecrispin.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/deforestation-in-mindanao-natures-message-being-ignored-in-the-philippines-deforestation-philippines/

TITLE: Deforestation and Forest Criminals in Mindanao: Nature’s Message Being Ignored.

AUTHOR: Gaye Crispin

DATE PUBLISHED: July. 2, 2012

KEY INFO: Gaye Crispin's statement about deforestation and forest criminals in Mindanao points out the root causes of trees being cut down and causing environmental issues and advocates herself to end the havoc caused by the forest criminals in Mindanao.

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URL:https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/regions/896223/6-dead-in-mindanao-floods-landslides/story/

TITLE: 6 dead in Mindanao floods, landslides

AUTHOR: GMA NEWS

DATE PUBLISHED: February 2, 2024

KEY INFO: Areas in Mindanao are affected by landslides sending thousands of people to emergency shelters, with 3 people dead in Maragusan landslides and having 1 missing.

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Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed six people in the Philippines, with one other person missing, rescuers said.

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URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6643402

TITLE: Philippine storm deaths blamed on logging

AUTHOR: NBC News

DATE PUBLISHED: December 3, 2004

KEY INFO: The country’s forest cover is now less than 18 percent, mostly located in the large southern islands of Palawan and Mindanao, from 64 percent in 1920.

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Saturnino Monreal remembers when there were more large trees than people around his village on the eastern Philippine coast, close to where hundreds have died in floods and landslides this week.

Now, over 2,000 families live here on subsistence rice and coconut farming and the huge trees he remembers from the 1960s have disappeared.

"As the number of people here increased, the trees started disappearing," said Monreal, a 72-year-old farmer, whose village escaped the landslides and floods that devastated nearby communities that have also suffered from deforestation.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo turned her anger on illegal loggers as the week's toll of death and missing rose over 1,000, ordering a nationwide crackdown on the activity.

But experts say the problem is more complex and warn the environmental cost is likely to rise without a more comprehensive policy approach.

Poverty drives many farmers and other rural residents to cut trees with little regard for the law.

Illegal, legal logging blamed
Hernando Avellaneda, the mayor of badly-hit General Nakar town, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that 40 percent of his constituents relied on illegal logging.

But legal loggers are also responsible for much of the damage, and often cut trees outside permitted areas while corrupt officials and local politicians turn a blind eye.

The country's rapidly growing population -- set to double over the next 50 years from a current 84 million -- is also raising demand for farmland. But the staunchly Roman Catholic Arroyo has refused to back tougher birth control policies.

"There's hardly any difference between so-called illegal loggers and legal loggers," said Orlando Mercado, a former senator who tried and failed to pass bills banning logging in the 1990s.

"The only difference in this country is that the legal loggers have political clout and that's the reason they can get the timber license agreement."

Under a selective logging ban imposed in the mid-1990s, licensed loggers are only allowed to cut trees in areas that have more than 20 percent forest cover.

Forest cover has shrunk
The country's forest cover has fallen to less than 18 percent, mostly located in the large southern islands of Palawan and Mindanao, from 64 percent in 1920, forestry statistics show.

Some environmentalists forecast that primary forest could have vanished from the Philippines within 20 years at current rates.

"The government just needs to implement the law, particularly for these big illegal loggers," said Annabel Plantilla, head of the Haribon Foundation, a Philippine environmental group.

"How can you possibly blame carabao loggers?" she added, referring to the water buffalo used by Filipino farmers.

In some ways, the Philippine experience mirrors the situation in neighboring Indonesia, where corruption has also gone hand-in-hand with the disappearance of rain forest.

Environmentalists there have blamed large-scale deforestation for deadly floods in rural areas as well as in Jakarta, where trees on nearby hills and mountains have given way to housing tracts and golf courses.

A flash flood in November last year in the Gunung Leuser national park in northern Sumatra devastated a resort village and buried many victims under mud.

By one estimate, Indonesia has lost more than 75 percent of its forests over the past few decades, leaving only 148 million acres.

Coral, fish affected, too
Philippine environmentalists say the consequences of deforestation go beyond the landslides that have become a regular tragedy in recent years.

Loose hillsides mean that water and soil rapidly slide into the sea, leaving a growing number of areas facing water shortages and damaging coral and fish stock.

"We cannot continue to satisfy the loggers," said Mercado.

"As far as I am concerned the economic benefit is far outweighed by the destruction to agriculture and our own lives."

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Philippine storm deaths blamed on logging

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Uncontrolled logging is at the root of the land and mudslides that claimed hundreds of lives in the Philippines this week.

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TITLE: Philippines | Flooding and landslides over 28 January - 10 February - DG ECHO Daily Map | 22/02/2024

AUTHOR: European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)

DATE PUBLISHED: February 22 2024

KEY INFO: The death toll of the February 6,2024 landslide has resulted with 98 deaths, with 8 persons missing in Barangay Masara landslide in Maco, Davao de Oro.

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TITLE: “The Last Mindanao Watersheds: Lessons from Mindanao Environmental Struggle” | “The Last Mindanao Watersheds: Lessons from Mindanao Environmental Struggle”

AUTHOR: Institution of Philippine Culture

DATE PUBLISHED: September 28,2022

KEY INFO: The significant decline in forest coverage of Mindanao with Bukidnon having 35% of forested areas left.

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“The Last Mindanao Watersheds: Lessons from Mindanao Environmental Struggle” | “The Last Mindanao Watersheds: Lessons from Mindanao Environmental Struggle”

The webinar will feature Fr. Randy Jasper C. Odchigue and Fr. Reynaldo D.... | By Institute of Philippine CultureFacebook

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“The Last Mindanao Watersheds: Lessons from Mindanao Environmental Struggle”

The webinar will feature Fr. Randy Jasper C. Odchigue and Fr. Reynaldo D....

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URL: https://r11.denr.gov.ph/index.php/news-events/press-releases/1413-mindanao-region-s-inter-regional-task-force-against-illegal-logging-reinforced

TITLE: MINDANAO REGION'S INTER-REGIONAL TASK FORCE AGAINST ILLEGAL LOGGING REINFORCED

AUTHOR: Department of Environment and Natural Resources

DATE PUBLISHED: November 10. 2021

KEY INFO: Efforts by DENR XI’s Regional Executive Director Bagani Fidel A. Evasco to strengthen inter-region partnership and alliance to combat illegal logging across Mindanao.

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In the interest of the service and in view of Secretary Roy A. Cimatu's Priority Program to intensify Forest Protection and Anti-Illegal Logging efforts, DENR XI's Regional Executive Director Bagani Fidel A. Evasco conducted a series of meetings with other region's Executive Directors. The said effort aims to attain an agreeable confluence on ways to further strengthen inter-region partnership and alliance particularly on combating illegal logging across Mindanao.

Recently, RED Evasco convened with RED Felix Alicer (DENR XII), RED Ronald D. Gadot (DENR IX), RED Arleigh J. Adorable (DENR X) and on his last leg, with RED Nonito Tamayo (DENR XIII) to further establish the Inter-Regional Joint Resolution which aims to intensify the apprehensions on illegal logging activity in the area and to yield earnest efforts and exude strategies to curb any incidents of the said illegal logging activities.

The said productive meetings enabled the directors to elaborate environmental conservation and protection of natural resources including forest products through the signing of Inter-Regional resolution against illegal logging activities.

With the signatures of the executives from the different regions completed, Inter- Regional Joint Resolution will now be formally endorsed to the DENR Secretary Roy A. Cimatu, for the issuance of clarificatory guidelines for DENR personnel in the opening of container vans, winged vans and the like upon probable cause that the same are carrying illegal forest products within the area of responsibility of Region IX (Zamboanga Peninsula Region), Region X (Northern Mindanao), Region XI (Davao Region), Region XII (SOCCKSARGEN Region), and Region XIII (Caraga Region).

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Parent Category: News & Events

Category: Press Releases

Published: 10 November 2021

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Mindanao Region's Inter-Regional Task Force against Illegal Logging reinforced

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In the interest of the service and in view of Secretary Roy A. Cimatu's Priority Program to intensify Forest Protection and Anti-Illegal Logging efforts, DENR XI's Regional Executive Director Bagani Fidel A. Evasco conducted a series of meetings with other region's Executive Directors.

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URL:

https://www.cmu.edu.ph/fauna-and-flora-of-mt-agad-agad-iligan-city-lanao-del-norte-a-photographic-field-guide/

TITLE: FAUNA AND FLORA OF MT. AGAD-AGAD ILIGAN CITY, LANAO DEL NORTE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC FIELD GUIDE.

AUTHOR: Central Mindanao University

DATE PUBLISHED: Feb. 2, 2024

KEY INFO: In collaboration with the City Government of Iligan, the CMU - University Press published a book about the current state of Mt. Agad-Agad's flora and fauna conservation. The stakeholders will use the book as a guide to safeguard the mountain's vegetation, animals, and trees.

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URL: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/889191.Plundering_Paradise

TITLE: Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines

AUTHOR: Robin Broad & John Cavanagh

DATE PUBLISHED: Jan. 1, 1993

KEY INFO: The authors have documented the experiences of the people whose livelihoods are disappearing along with their country's natural riches as they travel through the lush jungles of Mindanao. The outcome is a motivational and educational story about how laborers joined together to stop the looting and to better their own lives. Since they are aware that the land and the seas are essential to their survival, they oppose open-pit mining, replant trees, and block logging trucks in order to give young people hope for the future.

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Robin Broad with John Cavanagh  Plundering Paradise  The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines. Berkeley  CA  University of California Press.pdf

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X23000233

TITLE: Overview of priorities, threats, and challenges to biodiversity conservation in the southern Philippines

AUTHOR: Regional Sustainability, ScienceDirect

DATE PUBLISHED: May 19, 2023

KEY INFO: Agduma et al. (2023) highlighted the influence of mining, deforestation, and agricultural expansion on biodiversity conservation in Mindanao, among other major threats and challenges to biodiversity. According to their findings, areas lacking knowledge on biodiversity should also be the focus of biodiversity conservation, in addition to those having high levels of biodiversity.

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Overview of priorities, threats, and challenges to biodiversity conservation in the southern Philippines

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(RESEARCHED BY: Sison, Raphael Lorenzo C.)

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URL: https://www.forestfoundation.ph/blog/drawing-philippine-native-trees-for-forest-protection/

TITLE: Drawing Philippine Native Trees for Forest Protection

AUTHOR: Cynthia Bauzon-Arre

DATE PUBLISHED: Nov. 28, 2018

KEY INFO: The art created by Cynthia Bauzon-Arre is shown to advocate and show the rest of the world how beautiful the forest are. The main purpose of the art is to reach the mind of the people and to protect the forests of the Philippines in relation to Mindanao.

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Drawing Philippine Native Trees for Forest Protection

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By Cynthia Bauzon-Arre Around the start of this year, I started making notebooks and other stationery that featured local flora and fauna as a personal project. My motivation was these are the plants I grew up around and the produce that my parents introduced to us siblings when we were young.

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URL: https://www.facebook.com/TayoParaSaTampakan/posts/pfbid0g1PAxK51yR1vtYKHqV3wM1NNDUUdG2yZj59TuhmhxiDiUVD2QGJ4kqmSQPzTjafEl

TITLE: Tayo Tayo Para sa Tampakan

AUTHOR: Samahan.Tampakan

DATE PUBLISHED: November 21, 2020

KEY INFO: 10,000 Hectares of Land are being claimed against the Blaans by Tampakan Mining.

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URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCzV7L0maKs

TITLE: Protect our Forests – WWF PSA Campaign

AUTHOR: World Wildlife Fund

DATE PUBLISHED: March 21, 2017

KEY INFO: Eighty percent of the world’s known terrestrial plant and animal species can be found in forests. Almost 300 million people, particularly in developing countries, live in forests too. But threats to the world’s forests are growing. We are losing huge swathes of forests at an alarming rate due to expanding agriculture and illegal and unsustainable logging.

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https://www.themindanaojournal.com/of-environmental-and-political-changes-letters-from-davao-by-jun-ledesma/?fbclid=IwAR0R8f_L2gDuc6KG7pCBvvA7FHx9HXSYt0aRCWAO1qkZvENGvwtO9eT6fJA

TITLE: Of environmental and political changes (Letters from Davao by Jun Ledesma)

AUTHOR: The Mindanao Journal

DATE PUBLISHED: Feb. 16, 2024

KEY INFO: Nonstop rainfall devastated numerous cities in Davao de Oro, Davao Oriental, and Davao del Norte, including Agusan del Sur. The inundation of infrastructures rendered numerous remote barangays unreachable. There were landslides and floods covering the highways, and, consequently, there were several casualties because the locals were unprepared.

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(RESEARCHED BY: Sison, Raphael Lorenzo C.)

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URL: https://amranaidoo.com/doing-good-podcast/anne-marie-environment-feed-philippines

TITLE: Anne-Marie Bakker - Planting Trees for Peace & Security - DOING GOOD PODCAST

AUTHOR: Amra Naidoo

DATE PUBLISHED: March. 8, 2017

KEY INFO: This podcast is about the advocacy in planting trees in the Philippines and to have peace and security in the environment, this is tackled about by Anne-Marie Bakker who is a Partnerships Director at FEED; Part-Time PhD in Development Studies Spec. Social Forestry at University of the Philippines Los Baños and it is hosted by the Doing Good Podcast by Amra Naidoo.

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URL: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/xQEEWabQ333ztSFX/?mibextid=oFDknk

TITLE: STATEMENT ABOUT DISASTERS AND ILLEGAL LOGGING IN DAVAO AND AGUSAN

AUTHOR: Kalinaw Southeastern Mindanao (Facebook Page)

DATE PUBLISHED: Feb. 3, 2024

KEY INFO: Two similar incidents that occurred in Agusan del Sur involves vehicles that were flagged at a checkpoint. The drivers of aforementioned vehicles failed to show required documents, and declined to conduct a thorough inspection for their logging operations.

Kalinaw SEMR stated that irresponsible logging has serious environmental consequences, such as its contribution to deforestation. The absence of sustainable logging practices exacerbates soil erosion and increases the likelihood of landslides, as seen by recent natural disasters in Davao Region. Furthermore, the degradation of forest cover reduces the natural ability to absorb water, escalating the effects of flooding.