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Man climbs tree; causes traffic
A MAN who climbed a tree and stayed there for seven hours caused a two-hour traffic in Natalio Bacalso Avenue, Cebu City, yesterday. Rufino Ancon of Dumajug town, southwestern Cebu, would not tell police why he climbed the narra tree located a few meters from the Cebu Institute of Technology – University. Police initial investigation […]
Transfer Ciudad trees to SRP, says city exec
April 25, 2012
The Cebu city government can use the ball-out trees from the proposed Ciudad project for the South Road Properties. This developed after Cebu City agriculturist Joelito Baclayon requested Jonji Gonzales, Fifth Avenue Property Development Corporation Communications Consultant, to transfer the ball-out trees to the SRP similar to the ones uprooted from the current site of […]
Rama If there’s permit, cutting trees is okay
April 24, 2012
THERE won’t be any development without cutting of trees. So said Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama as he described as “preposterous” the expectations by environment officials that there won’t be any cutting of trees in the multibillion-peso Ciudad development in barangay Apas, Cebu City. The mayor reiterated his support to the joint Ciudad project of […]
Forest rangers suspect arson in Buhisan fires
April 23, 2012
Are arsonists responsible for the series of bush fires at the reforestation plantations in Buhisan Watershed and Forest Reserve? Volunteer forest rangers suspect the fires that hit the Buhisan Watershed and Forest Reserve may be caused by arson. Boy Clamares of Toong Volunteers Farmers Association made this assessment after putting out last Saturday, the third […]
Cargo confiscated: mangrove tree bark and sea corals
April 20, 2012
From land and sea, the smuggling of nature’s bounty continues. Navy men seized a boat load of 1,000 sacks of tree bark from mangroves or tanbarks locally known as “tungog,” which arrived in Pier 1, Cebu City, yesterday. The bark was loaded in Tawi-Tawi , Mindanao, and consigned to a certain Paul Bercina of Paknaan, […]
Citom removes ‘pricey junk’ lampposts
April 18, 2012
Cebu City Hall personnel yesterday started removing the controversial Asean lampposts, many of them idle and vandalized after being installed in 2006. The City Integrated Traffic Operation Management (Citom) led the removal starting in Nivel Hills in Lahug. “We will go down to Juan Luna Avenue up to S. Osmeña Boulevard in the North Reclamation […]
Fire torches native trees in Buhisan watershed
April 15, 2012
A fire broke out and spread through 12 hectares of the Buhisan Dam watershed a in barangay Toong, Cebu City, while forest guards and residents were attending a nearby seminar last Friday noon. Chairman Boy Clamares of the Toong Volunteer Farmers Association said three out of the affected 12 hectares of trees were sponsored by […]
Kaingin farmer turns new leaf
March 22, 2012
As a boy, he used to kill trees to clear forest land for farming in Negros Oriental. Today, he spends his waking hours doing his best to saving them. With this, 59-year-old Rene “Tatay Ete” Vendiola has found a lifelong advocacy to preserve trees and promote sustainable farming. “Ang mga kahoy kabilin nga di mabayran […]
Illegal structures trespass Kantipla
March 20, 2012
At least five land claimants have built illegal structures in a protected area of sitio Kantipla in the mountain barangay of Tabunan, Cebu City. This was confirmed by Ariel Pica, protected area supervisor of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas. He said this was shown in a review of the demarcation […]
Cebu tops illegal logs destination in Region 7
March 18, 2012
The province of Cebu is the top destination of illegal logs from Mindanao last year, according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7). More than half of the illegal logs confiscated by DENR in Central Visayas last year were in Cebu. Seized here were forest products reaching 250,6671 cubic meters […]
May 10, 2012
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