A total of 1,694.75 board feet of assorted pine lumber worth P 47,453 were intercepted recently by the Bokod police in a checkpoint.
According to P/Chief Superintendent Benjie Magalong, regional director of Police Regional Office Cordillera (PROCOR), this is a result of intensified campaign against illegal cutting of trees in line with Executive Order 23 declaring a moratorium on the cutting and harvesting of timber in natural and residual forests.
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The EO mandates the creation of a local anti-Illegal logging task force and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is the lead agency with the Philippine National Police (PNP) as member.
The Cordillera is the watershed cradle of Northern Luzon that is why we should guard and save from further exploitations of unscrupulous people, Magalong said.
He reminded PNP provincial directors to exercise extra vigilance in taking heed of the order and report all forms of destructive activities inside the forest.
The regional police chief also said that they will coordinate with all concerned municipal and city mayor and barangay captains to conduct upland monitoring to ensure that no illegal logging, kaingin, and other forms of forest destruction take place.
"Everybody should help in the protection of our remaining forest from further destruction; it is a legacy that we are going to give to our children and the future generation," Magalong added. - (PIA / by Joseph B Zambrano)
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