Illegally logged timber seized – BusinessWorld Online
COTABATO CITY — An inter-agency anti-illegal logging team confiscated 1,344 board feet of timber flitches in an operation near a tropical rainforest in Buldon town in Maguindanao del Norte on Sept. 26.
Bangsamoro regional officials told reporters on Saturday that the Lawaan timbers, cut into halves, costing no less than P60,000, were found piled in a grassy area in a secluded village in Buldon by combined personnel of the Maguindanao del Norte Provincial Environment, Natural Resources and Energy Office, Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office and a team from the Philippine Navy’s Marine Battalion Landing Team-6.
Municipal officials said the men watching over the illegally cut dipterocarp tree species that they were about to deliver somewhere fled when they sensed that the anti-illegal logging team, escorted by the navy, were approaching their location. — John Felix M. Unson