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News Monitoring 09 12 2019 DATE . 12 SEP 2019 pursday 4 DAY : tiNT rri-us irsavvs Strategic Communication and Initiative Service • STRATEGIC PPER PAGE! BANNER EDITORIAL CARTOON A COMMUNICATION se STORY STORY INITIATIVES PAGE LOWER 111111/1110•111W c. "stallit aERVICE ,1 2 cEP DAT TITLE: FAGS If DENR moves for creation of enforcement bureau By RHODINA VILLANUEVA sound of a chainsaw as they passed through Barangay Pasadena. Secretary Roy Cimatu of the Department of Environment and Veguilla's group followed Natural Resources (DENR) is calling for the enactment of a law the sound until they saw some creating an enforcement bureau within the agency. men slicing a felled tree with a chainsaw. These men suddenly ran "We believe that the creation of such as the killing of Mt Veguilla to away upon seeing the DENR team, an enforcement bureau under the happen to any of my people. This leaving behind the chainsaw which DENR can effectively stop illegal incident shows how greed and Veguilla's group was able to secure. logging, smuggling of wildlife disregard for our laws can have ap- On their way home and about a species and other environmental palling consequences on people and hundred meters away from the site, crimes," Cimatu pointed out. our society" Cimatu added. the DENR forest officers were chased The DENR chief appealed to Reports reaching the DENR cen- by a group of six men armed with House members present during tral office in Quezon City showed a bolo. Veguilla was able to the his the recent budget hearing to help that Veguilla - together with fellow service weapon as he and his com- the DENR install this enforcement forest ranger Jenuel Casel, forest panions were running for safety. bureau at the soonest time possible. extension officer Herson Caliao, However, Veguilla was cornered This developed after Cimatu con- and park rangers Marvin Flamiano, and hacked to death, while the oth- demned the brutal killing of DENR Godensio Caber and Norlito Jongay ers were able to seek help from the forest ranger Bienvenido Veguilla - were conducting forest patrol in nearby barangay and police offices. Jr. by suspected illegal loggers in El the afternoon of Sept. 4 in an area Veguilla sustained deep, multiple Nido, Palawan recently. covered by the National Green- stab wounds on the head, arms and "I will never allow another crime ing Program when they heard the other parts of the body. One of the suspects identified as Filman Flores was wounded by Veguilla's shots and was brought to hospital. Flores and another suspect, Gerardo Fulgencio, are now under police custody. A manhunt opera- tion is ongoing for the remaining four suspects. Earlier, the DENR chief said they have subjected to training forest ri rangers on the use of shotgun for their protection. Cimatu said the standard operat- ing procedure is every time patrol- ling activities are conducted, these forest rangers should be accompa- nied by personnel from the Philip- pine National Police or the Army. He added that their move is limited to that for now as there is no law authorizing them to arm forest rangers. STRATEGIC HILIPPINE DAILY PER PAGE 1 BANNER EWIORIAL CARTOON COMMUNICATION WPM rMikkeiz7 pth9 STORY STORY N IT IATI RES PAGE LOWER SERVICE IN UIRER 12 SEP 2019 PAGE I/ DATE LSITORIAL Martyrs for the land nother environmental defender has been murdered. Forest ranger Bienvinido Veguilla Jr., 44, was hacked to death in El Nido, Palawan, on Sept. 4 while he was trying to arrest suspected illegal loggers. Veg- It is not only environmental workers that are uWa is the country's latest casualty in getting killed; Global Witness said indigenous peo- the violence being committed against ple "are disproportionately affected by the scram- those who protect their land and the ble for land and natural resources, and the violence environment. His killing further wors- that comes with it." It cited the October 2018 mas- Aens the Philippines' reputation as the deadliest sacre in Sagay City, Negros Occidental, of nine sug- country for environmental defenders in 2018, ac- arcane farmers occupying a plot of disputed land. cording to international monitor Global Witness. The situation has not improved under President Thirty of them were killed last year alone. Duterte, with 48 deaths—the highest number Glob- Veguilla and five other rangers of the Depart- al Witness has recorded in an Asian country—in ment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 2017 alone, a year after the former Davao City may- were conducting a forest patrol in an area covered or became president. Also in 2017, Mr. Duterte an- by the National Greening Program when they heard nounced plans to allocate 1.6 million hectares of the sound of a chainsaw nearby. They followed the land to industrial plantations, most of them in Min- sound and discovered men slicing a felled tree. The danao. "This region," Global Witness noted, refer- men ran away, but later, armed with bolos, cornered ring to Mindanao, "has also become a hot spot for the DENR team on their way back to the office, lead- murders of land and environmental defenders, ac- ing to Veguilla's death. counting for 67 percent of the total killed in the This was not the first time an environmental de- Philippines in 2017 and a third in 2018." fender has been attacked or murdered in Palawan— In an interview with global nonprofit media the country's so-called last frontier, with 692,288 company Public Radio International, environmen- hectares of forest cover hosting flora and fauna of tal activist Jaybee Garganera said people like him great diversity. In September 2017, Ruben Arzaga, a face daunting challenges in the Philippines, where member of the El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource it "is easy for local communities to be tagged as Protected Area board, was shot and killed while he was bandits or rebels or communist insurgents." The arresting suspected illegal loggers. In August that same Duterte administration had accused the massacred year, government forester Lito Eyala was shot and Negros farmers, for example, as being backed by severely injured by a suspected timber poacher while the communist armed group New People's Army. patrolling the mountains in Puerto Princesa City. Indeed, as stark and telling as the unabated These attacks had prompted Environment Sec- killings of land and environmental defenders is the retary Roy Cimatu, a former Armed Forces chief of lack of meaningful investigations by the government staff, to have DENR personnel trained in handling into those behind these crimes. In a time of normal- shotguns. Cimatu reasoned then that he would ized, everyday bloodbath, the fight has become two- "never allow" another crime to be committed fold: protecting not only the environment, but also against any DENR personnel, and asked lawmakers those who risk their lives defending what's left of it. to pass a law establishing an enforcement bureau to boost the implementation of environmental laws. The standard operating procedure to have police or army personnel accompany forest rangers on pa- trol was not adequate, he said, since uniformed per- sonnel were not available all the time. "Hindi no- man kami pwede mag- hire ng security guard to help k us in the patroling. In the end, sana mayroon no tay- ong betas na makatulong so atin," Cimatu added. The DENR chief had been pushing for arming per- sonnel since Arzaga's death in 2017—a move opposed by Kalilcasan (People's Network for the Environment), which has warned that armed forest guards can be transformed into paramilitary groups that may end up harassing and repressing local communities. Global Witness' report cm the Philippines hav- ing become the most murderous country for envi- ronmentalists also made a similar warning in its re- port, saying that these crimes "are aided by the peo- ple and institutions meant to prevent them." I I &111 STRATEGIC UPPER PAGE I BANNER EINTORIAT CARTOON STORY STORY COMMUNICATION Aeit PAGE isinaloosw."0 Inninfivys Dusinessminor .w...0"•••• Dulwich 112 SEP 2019 TINIPSISTANSIk ISyNIT 6101 z PAGE I/ DENR, MICC working to improve mining policies' dustry needs are amendments of HE Department of Environ- at the ongoing Mining Philippines DA0 2010-21, or the implementing mentandNatural Resources. 2019: International Conference and rules and regulation of Republic (DENR) and the Mining Exhibition at the Sofitel Philippine T Plaza in Pasay City Wednesday. Act 7942; a separate initiative to Industry Coordinating Council amend sections 189-92, also of the (MICC) areworldng to improve sev- Teh, the DENR's undersecretary IRR of RA 8942; the guidelines for eral policies affecting the minerals for dimate change and mining con- the Care andMaintenance Program development sector to boost the cerns, spoke on the government's way for Mining; and amendment to the country's growth and development. forward for the mining industry. implementing rules and regula- ThiswasdisclosedbyEnvironment Teh said four priority items tions of Republic Act 7076 or the Undersecretary for Climate Change that will make the government's People's Small Scale Mining Act. and Mining Concerns Analiza R. Teh mining policies responsive to in- "Hopefully, with allthese pend- ing policies with the cooperation of the mining industry, slowly, we can formulate new policies that will really be responsive to the needs of the mining industry, support their investments and at the same time the environmental safeguards are properlytaken care of," she said. SEE "MICC," Aa 1 Moe I TANNER EDITORIAL CARTOON STORY ThAM LINI CATION STORY PAGE sithems".•„,„„„„yeassie INITIATIVES
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