Illegal loggers cut down 60-year-old tree in Banahaw
Published Jun 11, 2019 01:39 pm
By Danny Estacio
SARIAYA, Quezon – A 60-year-old Malauban tree in Mt. Banahaw was illegally felled and cut into timber.
Fresh sewn lumber of a 60-year-old tree Malauban was illegal cut by still unknown illegal loggers at the protected area of Mt. Banahaw in barangay Bogon, Sariaya, Quezon after Kasama ng Kalikasan (KnK) and Protected Area Superintendent teams discovered it. (Danny Estacio/ MANILA BULLETIN)
A joint anti-illegal logging operation by Kasama ng Kalikasan (KnK) and Protected Area Superintendent of Mount Banahaw – San Cristobal Protected Landscape discovered the Malauban timber, cut into two-by-two, 12 feet long slabs as it was about to be towed by a horse in Barangay Sampaloc Bogon, and Pinagbakuran, this town, areas that have been declared protected by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
The group learned that the tree was cut down by illegal loggers from the village of Sampaloc 1.
Area Superintendent Salud Pangan said her team was investigating illegal logging at the Banahaw protected area, and asked the villagers in Bogon to cooperate in the arrest of environment culprits.
Fresh sewn lumber of a 60-year-old tree Malauban was illegal cut by still unknown illegal loggers at the protected area of Mt. Banahaw in barangay Bogon, Sariaya, Quezon after Kasama ng Kalikasan (KnK) and Protected Area Superintendent teams discovered it. (Danny Estacio/ MANILA BULLETIN)
A joint anti-illegal logging operation by Kasama ng Kalikasan (KnK) and Protected Area Superintendent of Mount Banahaw – San Cristobal Protected Landscape discovered the Malauban timber, cut into two-by-two, 12 feet long slabs as it was about to be towed by a horse in Barangay Sampaloc Bogon, and Pinagbakuran, this town, areas that have been declared protected by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
The group learned that the tree was cut down by illegal loggers from the village of Sampaloc 1.
Area Superintendent Salud Pangan said her team was investigating illegal logging at the Banahaw protected area, and asked the villagers in Bogon to cooperate in the arrest of environment culprits.