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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
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BACOLOD City – A charcoal maker from Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental was charged with violating the NIPAS (National Integrated Protected Areas System) Act of 1992.
Personnel of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) caught Rolando Oyco of Barangay Igmaya-an, Salvador Benedicto attending to his charcoal pit.
Northern Negros Natural Park (NNNP) staffers and a peoples’ organization president found scattered cut trees in the village while patrolling the protected forest.
Oyco had with him assorted natural-grown forest tree species of various sizes and dimensions.
He was set to use them for charcoal making without authorization from the NNNP and the Protected Area Management Board, the DENR said.
Ten pieces of trees, damaged and cut for charcoal making, with an estimated volume of 4.59 cubic meters were confiscated.
Edgardo M. Rostata, head of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office, and lawyers Cheryll Rose Librero and Bronwen May Lagura of the DENR-Negros Island Region’s Legal Division filed the complaint against Oyco.
Rostata encouraged communities to actively advocate forest protection, and report similar incidents and other environmental law violations to his office through 435-7411 or 441-3329, or email penrneg@yahoo.com (PIA/PN)
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