Call any information about illegal logging in your communities to the nearest PENRO and CENRO and help Zero illegal logging:

PENRO Agusan del Norte

CENRO Nasipit

CENRO Tubay

PENRO Agusan del Sur

CENRO Bayugan City

CENRO Bunawan

CENRO Loreto

CENRO Talacogon

PENRO Dinagat

PENRO Surigao del Norte

CENRO Surigao City

PENRO Surigao del Sur

CENRO Bislig City

CENRO Lianga

DENR Regional Office XIII

Brgy. Ambago, Butuan City, 8600 Website: http://caraga.denr.gov.ph/

E-mail: denrcaraga@yahoo.com or pmd.misss@gmail.com

Regional Public Affairs Office Tel. No.: 341-32-29

Illegal Logging is Crime, Stop it Now! ♥ June 2015

Section 68 of the Presidential Decree No. 705 as amended by Executive Order No. 277 series of 1987 stipulates the reward of the informants on illegal

logging activities to the authorities.

“Section 68-B. Rewards to Informants. Any person who shall provide any information leading to the apprehen-sion and conviction of any offender for any violation of this Code or other forest laws, rules and regulations, or confiscation of forest products shall be given a reward in the amount of twenty per centum (20%) of the proceeds of the confiscated forest products.”

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Philippine National Police

MENRO

Municipal Local Government Unit

Provincial Local Government Unit

Concerned Environmental Advocates Group

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DENR-CARAGA

The basic provision of law on illegal logging is anchored

on Section 68 of the Presidential Decree No. 705

“Forestry Reform Code of the Philippines, approved on

May 19, 1975 as amended by Executive Order No. 277

“Amending section 68 of Presidential Decree (P.D.) No.

705, as amended, otherwise known as the Revised

Forestry Code of the Philippines, for the purpose of

penalizing possession of timber or other forest products

without the legal documents required by existing forest

laws, authorizing the confiscation of illegally cut,

gathered, removed and possessed forest products, and

granting rewards to informers of violations of forestry

laws, rules and regulations” dated July 25, 1987.

Offenses punishable under Section 68

of P.D. 705 as amended by E.O No. 227,

series of 1987

1. Cutting, gathering, collecting or removing of

timber or other forest products from any forestland without authority.

2. Cutting, gathering, collecting or removing of

timber from alienable or disposable public land or from private land.

3. Possession of timber or other forest products without the legal documents as required under existing forest laws and regulations.

Person Liable on Illegal Logging

1. The cutter 2. The gatherer 3. The collector

4. The remover 5. Possessor or any and all persons who appear

to be responsible for the commission of

offense defined in Section 68 of P.D No. 705 as amended by E.O No. 277 series of 1987

6. In case of partnerships, association, or corporations, the officers who ordered the cutting, gathering, collecting or in possession.

Penalties imposed on Illegal Logging

1. The offenders shall be punished with the penalties imposed under Article 309 and 310

of the Revised Penal Code; 2. If the person liable is an officer of a partner-

ship, association or corporation, and is an

alien, shall in addition to the penalty above imposed, be deported, without further proceeding, by the Commission on

Immigration and Deportation (Sec. 68 of P.D 705 as amended by E.O 277)

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Legal documents Required by Forest

Laws and Regulations

A. Documents required for the shipment

(transport) of logs/timbers 1. Certificate of Timber Origin 2. Auxiliary Invoices

3. Sales or Commercial Invoices 4. Log Supply Contract or LSPA

5. Logs must be scaled and marked with Forest Officer’s marking hatchet and Timber Licensee’s Registered Private Log Mark (Par. 7, DENR Admin.

Order No. 34, series of 1998) 6. Certificate of Transport Agreement (Sec. 3 DENR

Admin. Order No. 59, series f 1990)

B. Transport of Lumber 1. Original copy of Certificate of Lumber Origin (CLO) 2. Lumber Sales Invoices (in case of lumber sale)

3. Tally Sheets 4. Delivery Receipt (BFD Circular No. 8, series of 1983) 5. Certificate of Transport Agreement unless dispensed

with under DENR Admin Order No. 59-A, series of 1990.

6. Certificate of Inspection (as required under BFD

Circular N. 8, s. 1983 - for export transportation) 7. Log sales Invoices (in case of sale f logs from which

the lumber were produced - for export transport)