Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Central Visayas (DENR-7) will demolish all structures of all resorts in the region that have encroached in the 20-meter easement zone. The group has started the demolition in one of the country’s top tourist destination, Bantayan island.

Posted on May 31, 2010

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BEACH ZONE LIBERATED

DEMOLITION/MAY 28,2010: Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Assistant Secretary Ernesto Adobo and Region 7 executive director Leonardo Sibbaluca supervise the demolition of illegal structures within twenty meters from the shoreline. (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO)

Early support for demolition of structures in Sta. Fe beach

MAY 28,2010: A demolition worker carries the remnants of the destructed seawall of Marlin Beach Resort while a local tourist tries to relax on the resort’s lounge chair but the noise of the jack hammer used by another worker pissed him off. He later checked out early and went to another resort to enjoy the pristine white sands of the island. (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO)

DENR to assess beach resorts

ONE DOWN/ May 28, 2010: It took more than six hours for the demolition team to destroy the 100-meter wide seawall and another hour to smash down one of the four cemented kiosk of Marlin Beach Resort. There are six other resorts in Bantayan whose structures have encroached within the 20-meter easement zone specified in the Water Code of the Philippines. (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO)

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