The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7) reiterated that a permit to cut is needed over the cutting of trees within private lands.

According to DENR-7 Regional Executive Director Dr. Isabelo Montejo, this is in line with Executive Order No. 23 or the moratorium on the tree cutting throughout the country.

“We are preserving a good balance of forest for perpetuity by shifting timber harvesting in tree plantations only,” said Montejo in a press statement.

In a memorandum dated February 13 signed by Montejo, provincial and community environment and natural resources officers in the four provinces are instructed to implement the order requiring a ‘permit to cut’ on requests on the cutting of trees within a private land.

Requirements for the issuance of clearance for a permit to cut are the following: letter request, local government unit clearance, inventory of tree requested to be cut with global positioning system (GPS) reading per tree, stand stock table, copy of land title or tax declaration, geotagged pictures, sketch plan, and tree chart.

“We will not issue a clearance unless these requirements are complied with and attached to the application for a permit to cut,” Montejo said.

He pointed out: “You cannot harvest what you did not plant.”

Natural and residual forests are forests composed of indigenous trees, not planted by man.

Montejo added that under a new regime in forest resource development, the country’s shift to tree plantation development has been given the needed push in recognizing the sustainability of tree plantations as a viable source of timber. (rmn/PIA7-Cebu with reports from DENR-7)

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Cebuano News: Mga bag-ong opisyal gitudlo sa nasudnong panggamhanan

Ang Palasyo mipahibalo niadtong adlawng Lunes nga adunay napiling 18 ka bag-ong opisyal sa nagkalain laing ahensya sa gobyerno.

 Sa gihimong press briefing, namahayag si Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda nga si Corazon Davis ug Marcial Amaro, Jr. ang milingkod isip Assistant Secretaries sa Department of Environment and NaturalResources (DENR) ug si Danielle Marie Rieza isip Acting Assistant Secretary sa Department of Finance.

 

Corazon Davis ASEC-DENR

Laing napili nga mangulo sa Department of Transportation andCommunications sila si Ramon Jumawan, Director IV, Amante Caluya, Jr. isip Captain sa Hydrography Branch sa National Mapping and Resource InformationAuthority; Fidelis Cañada, Acting Director ll sa Office of Civil Defense ubos sa Department of National Defense.

Laing napili nga mangulo sa Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries, si Ariel Cayanan nga Acting Executive Director lll ug Josefina Rico, Director ll sa National Meat Inspection Service. Ang maong mga ahensya parehong ubos sa Department of Agriculture.

 

Josie Perez, Deputy-NCTCO

Si Josie Perez napili nga Deputy National Statistician sa Censuses and Technical Coordination Office, Estela de Guzman, Deputy National Statistician sa Civil and Registration and Center Support Office, PhilippineStatistics Authority nga ubos sa pagdumala sa National Economic and DevelopmentAuthority.

 

Marcial Amaro Jr. ASEC/DENR

Mga bag-ong napili nga mga Registers of Deeds ll sila si Arthur Abamonga, Julie Mae Monique Abela, Casiano Arcillas, Consuelo Filog, Dinna Lao, ug Maria Elnora Puday sa Land Registration Authority sa Departmentof Justice.

Si Raul Fajardo Marcelo napiling miyembro nga mo    representar sa pribadong sektor sa Board of Directors sa Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, samtang si Jose Suan napiling miyembro nga mo representar sa labor sector sa Board of Directors sa Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority. (LEANDRIA P. PAGUNSAN/PIA-Negor)

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