KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/07 February) – Soldiers belonging to the 38th Infantry Battalion confiscated on Sunday afternoon a truckload of reportedly illegal lumber in an entrapment operation in Makilala town of North Cotabato. Makilala municipal environment officer Walter Ruizo said about 2,000 board feet of lumber of nilo, a premium species, were loaded in a vintage [...]

CORTES, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews/15 October) — A large-scale logging firm whose Timber License Agreement (TLA) expired two years ago continues to operate inside ancestral lands in Cortes and Lanuza towns of Surigao del Sur using a “defective and erroneous” Integrated Forest Plantation Management Agreement (Ifma), an official of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 October) – Parishioners from around Bukidnon will mark the 19th death anniversary on Thursday of slain priest Fr. Nery Lito Satur by planting indigenous tree species in an area dedicated to him in Barangay Patpat in this city and in other areas of the 47 parishes comprising the Diocese of Malaybalay, the [...]

SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/12 October) — Even as Surigao City continues to grapple with dwindling water supply for household consumption, cutting of trees has remained rampant at the Parang-parang watershed in Barangay Mat-i, currently the city’s major source of potable water. Benjamin R. Ensomo Jr., Surigao Metropolitan Water District (SMWD) general manager said that 1,011.74 board [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/8 Sept) — The Department of Public Works and Highways regional office in Northern Mindanao admitted it erred in proposing a P1.515-billion budget for the Kapalong (Davao del Norte) to Valencia City (Bukidnon) highway. Engr. Bonifacio Lora, assistant regional director, told the Bukidnon provincial board Wednesday the budget was not enough to complete [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 September) — The barangay chair of Kibongkog, San Fernando, Bukidnon and two others are facing charges of alleged illegal logging filed by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources at the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor. Leon Equipelag, special forestry prosecutor, signed the complaint against Kibongkog barangay chair Vicky Yandug, Rodolfo Barometro, [...]