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Downpour topples tree, sinks vessel
A TOPPLED tamarind tree barred vehicles from entering S. Osmeña Street in sitio Vican, barangay Gun-ob Lapu-Lapu City amid a heavy downpour that started at 10 p.m Tuesday and lasted until 9:30 a.m yesterday. Traffic personnel diverted oncoming traffic to another route while engineering crews sent by Lapu-Lapu City Hall cleared the tree at 10 […]
Fruit trees cut sans DENR permit
September 13, 2012
The contractor of the road widening project in Naga City has started cutting fruit trees to hasten completion of their work. The cutting however is without permit from the Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Project engineers said the cutting “is okay as long as owners allowed them to.” “Kanang fruit trees, although kahibaw […]
TREE BLOCKS NAGA ROAD
August 8, 2012
Workers pour concrete for ongoing road-widening in barangay Tinaan, Naga City, where an old acacia tree stands right in the middle. It looks too late to stop the progress despite an outcry by environment advocates and the Jakosalem clan, whose grandfather, the late Gov. Dionisio Jakosalem, had the trees planted circa 1915. Approval is being […]
DENR: Century trees must stay
August 4, 2012
Environment officials want healthy heritage trees in the Carcar- Naga highway to stay where they are. Department of Environment and Natural Resources 7 regional executive director Isabelo Montejo said their stand is “no cutting, no compromise.” The proposal to divert the widened road making the heritage trees part of the center island was once […]
Jakosalem clan ready to sue whoever cuts down century-old trees planted by former Cebu governor
July 25, 2012
The Jakosalem clan is ready to sue whoever cuts down remaining century-old trees that line the national highway in south Cebu where a road-widening project has started. “That stretch of road is not even congested. Traffic congestion only happens at the center of Naga and Carcar City,” said Sylvan “Jack” Jakosalem, chairman of the […]
DENR to cut ‘defective’ trees and earthball 16 others
July 25, 2012
IT was as “good as dead,” said a environment official. The tree stump that Cebu Daily News photographed of a giant acacia already cut down and lying by the road in barangay Tinaan, Naga City is one of nine century-old trees considered “defective” and targeted for removal for public safety, said Eddie Llamedo, spokesman of […]
Authorities clueless on felling of heritage trees
July 24, 2012
Authorities are clueless on who cut down the century-old acacia tree in barangay Tinaan, Naga City that was photographed last Saturday by Cebu Daily News. Naga City Mayor Valdemar Chiong said the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) 2nd District Engr. Daisy Toledo told him “there are certain trees that need to be cut” […]
Amid ban, century old tree cut down
July 22, 2012
The days of the century-old heritage trees affected by the ongoing road-widening project in the cities of Naga and Carcar may be numbered. A tree stump was photographed by Cebu Daily News standing in the middle of towering century-old trees in barangay Tinaan, Naga City last Saturday. The felled century old tree was seen on […]
BRT TO BRING CHANGE
June 20, 2012
Planners have to take extra care not to disturb the trees or heritage value of the 100-year-old fountain and park in Fuente Osmeña. The changes afoot in Osmeña Boulevard for the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) are also a concern for citizens. “We’ll make sure not to touch the trees,” said Colin Brader, who leads […]
Tree planting, cleanups for Environment Month
June 2, 2012
TREE planting and creek clean- ups will be held today in Cebu as part of the celebration of Environment Month in June, said the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Central Visayas. A parade on June 4 will be followed by a sportsfest and presentation of 12 candidates of the “Mutya ng Kalikasan” […]
September 20, 2012
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