Call any information about illegal logging in your communities to the nearest PENRO and CENRO and help Zero illegal logging: PENRO Agusan del Norte CENRO Nasipit CENRO Tubay PENRO Agusan del Sur CENRO Bayugan City CENRO Bunawan CENRO Loreto CENRO Talacogon PENRO Dinagat PENRO Surigao del Norte CENRO Surigao City PENRO Surigao del Sur CENRO Bislig City CENRO Lianga DENR Regional Office XIII Brgy. Ambago, Butuan City, 8600 Website: http://caraga.denr.gov.ph/ E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]Regional Public Affairs Office Tel. No.: 341-32-29 Illegal Logging is Crime, Stop it Now! ♥ June 2015 Section 68 of the Presidential Decree No. 705 as amended by Executive Order No. 277 series of 1987 stipulates the reward of the informants on illegal logging activities to the authorities. “Section 68-B. Rewards to Informants. Any person who shall provide any information leading to the apprehen- sion and conviction of any offender for any violation of this Code or other forest laws, rules and regulations, or confiscation of forest products shall be given a reward in the amount of twenty per centum (20%) of the proceeds of the confiscated forest products.” Report Unscrupulous Report Unscrupulous Report Unscrupulous illegal loggers illegal loggers illegal loggers Informants on illegal Informants on illegal Informants on illegal loggers will be rewarded loggers will be rewarded loggers will be rewarded Report Unscrupulous Report Unscrupulous Report Unscrupulous illegal loggers NOW! illegal loggers NOW! illegal loggers NOW! Report any corrupt illegal logging in your communities to the nearest Philippine Army, Philippine National Police, Municipal Environment & Natural Resources (MENRO), concerned environmental groups/ organizations nearest your place and help Zero illegal logging! Philippine Army Philippine National Police MENRO Municipal Local Government Unit Provincial Local Government Unit Concerned Environmental Advocates Group Concerned Environmental Advocates Group DENR-CARAGA
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Call any information about illegal logging in your communities to the nearest PENRO and CENRO and help Zero illegal logging:
PENRO Agusan del Norte
CENRO Nasipit
CENRO Tubay
PENRO Agusan del Sur
CENRO Bayugan City
CENRO Bunawan
CENRO Loreto
CENRO Talacogon
PENRO Dinagat
PENRO Surigao del Norte
CENRO Surigao City
PENRO Surigao del Sur
CENRO Bislig City
CENRO Lianga
DENR Regional Office XIII
Brgy. Ambago, Butuan City, 8600 Website: http://caraga.denr.gov.ph/
Regional Public Affairs Office Tel. No.: 341-32-29
Illegal Logging is Crime, Stop it Now! ♥ June 2015
Section 68 of the Presidential Decree No. 705 as amended by Executive Order No. 277 series of 1987 stipulates the reward of the informants on illegal
logging activities to the authorities.
“Section 68-B. Rewards to Informants. Any person who shall provide any information leading to the apprehen-sion and conviction of any offender for any violation of this Code or other forest laws, rules and regulations, or confiscation of forest products shall be given a reward in the amount of twenty per centum (20%) of the proceeds of the confiscated forest products.”
Report any corrupt illegal logging in your communities to the nearest Philippine Army, Philippine National Police, Municipal Environment & Natural Resources (MENRO), concerned environmental groups/ organizations nearest your place and help Zero illegal logging!
Philippine Army
Philippine National Police
MENRO
Municipal Local Government Unit
Provincial Local Government Unit
Concerned Environmental Advocates Group
Concerned Environmental Advocates Group
DENR-CARAGA
The basic provision of law on illegal logging is anchored
on Section 68 of the Presidential Decree No. 705
“Forestry Reform Code of the Philippines, approved on
May 19, 1975 as amended by Executive Order No. 277
“Amending section 68 of Presidential Decree (P.D.) No.
705, as amended, otherwise known as the Revised
Forestry Code of the Philippines, for the purpose of
penalizing possession of timber or other forest products
without the legal documents required by existing forest
laws, authorizing the confiscation of illegally cut,
gathered, removed and possessed forest products, and
granting rewards to informers of violations of forestry
laws, rules and regulations” dated July 25, 1987.
Offenses punishable under Section 68
of P.D. 705 as amended by E.O No. 227,
series of 1987
1. Cutting, gathering, collecting or removing of
timber or other forest products from any forestland without authority.
2. Cutting, gathering, collecting or removing of
timber from alienable or disposable public land or from private land.
3. Possession of timber or other forest products without the legal documents as required under existing forest laws and regulations.
Person Liable on Illegal Logging
1. The cutter 2. The gatherer 3. The collector
4. The remover 5. Possessor or any and all persons who appear
to be responsible for the commission of
offense defined in Section 68 of P.D No. 705 as amended by E.O No. 277 series of 1987
6. In case of partnerships, association, or corporations, the officers who ordered the cutting, gathering, collecting or in possession.
Penalties imposed on Illegal Logging
1. The offenders shall be punished with the penalties imposed under Article 309 and 310
of the Revised Penal Code; 2. If the person liable is an officer of a partner-
ship, association or corporation, and is an
alien, shall in addition to the penalty above imposed, be deported, without further proceeding, by the Commission on
Immigration and Deportation (Sec. 68 of P.D 705 as amended by E.O 277)