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Friday, January 28, 2005
P200T illegal lumber seized
The Talisay City environmental team apprehended last Wednesday some illegally cut teakwood lumber worth at least P200,000 inside the Mananga watershed area in Camp 3, Barangay Jaclupan.
Not one of the illegal loggers, though, was arrested, according to Clemente Fernandez, chief of the special squad tasked by Mayor Socrates Fernandez to run after violators of environmental laws.
Clemente said a lookout must have seen them coming and signaled the wood cutters to flee.
Backed by six policemen, Clemente’s team found a pile of lumber on a hillside near the boundary between Barangays Jaclupan and Tapul.
The contraband would have been dropped from the hillside and hauled by the cutters’ companions to a waiting cargo truck.
Clemente said at least 80 of 50 year-old forest trees were felled by the suspects who left behind a wide swath of tree stumps deep in the forest.
The wood cutters must have used chainsaw machines in cutting the timber, Clemente added.
Tapul Barangay Captain Jose Juarez had alerted Fernandez about the illegal loggers’ activities.
It was the first time for the environmental team to seize illegally cut lumber since its creation in July last year.
The team has already apprehended at least 30 illegal haulers of sand and gravel.
Fernandez said he is also forming another team to run after illegal fishers. (RJ)
(January 28, 2005 issue)
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