8ID troopers seize illegally cut lumbers

By CMO Battalion, 8ID PA
November 13, 2010

CAMP LUKBAN, Catbalogan, Samar  –  With the intensified campaign against illegal logging in the area as deputized by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), combined elements of the 8ID’s 802nd Brigade and 19th Infantry Battalion partnered with the DENR team from Manila seized illegally cut lumbers at Sitio Kusol, Brgy. Liberty, Ormoc City around 10:00 a.m. on November 11.

The confiscation took place when the team acted on the information regarding the presence and on-going illegal logging activities in the said area.

It counted for about an estimated 2,000 board feet of assorted illegally cut lumbers including Lawaan were seized and lately found out to be owned by a certain Abundio Magno alias Bondoy.

The confiscated lumbers are now under the custody of DENR for proper disposition which will also be used to sue appropriate charges to Magno.

Meanwhile, Major General Mario Chan, 8ID’s commander commended the members of the team involved in the successful deeds.  He said that while 8ID is intensifying its ISO campaign to pursue peace and development in the province, the non-traditional role of the soldiers that will greatly affect the attainment of peace and development will also given equal importance.

“Environmental protection and preservation and other non-traditional role bestowed on us is co-equal with our ISO campaign for it also affects our aims to make our province progressive to at least tangent with other neighboring provinces if we can’t abruptly surpass them,”  General Chan says.