- SHIP GROUNDING IN THE REEF AREAS OF BARANGAY BIG MARGUS, GLAN, SARANGANI PROVINCE
- MARINE MAMMAL MONITORING
- CENRO GLAN VISITS E-NGP SITES
- PHILIPPINE EAGLE EXHIBIT
- Pawikan Hatchling Released In Alabel, Sarangani Province
- 3 Dead Marine Turtles and Dugong Sightings Reported in Sarangani Bay
- CELEBRATION OF THE 19TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE ECOLOGICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT
- DENR SARANGANI’S PARTICIPATION IN THE CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEAN 2018
- Management Planning for Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape
- CENRO Glan and PNP Glan Discovered Illegally Cut Lumbers
- World Water Day
- Grassfire Incidence at the Area of Alcantara Ranch
- Awarding of Special Patents to School Sites in Sarangani
- DENR Kiamba Seized 103 Pieces of Lauan Lumber
- Celebration of Climate Change Consciousness Week
- Rescued Chinese Sparrowhawk
- Stranded Dugong at Different Area
- Youth Group Undergoes Environmental Education
- DENR Involves Community On Law Enforcement
- TARSIER, Turned-Over at DENR Kiamba
- Marine Mammal Survey in SBPS
- Philippine Flying Lemur Rescued
- Public- Private Partnership for Mangrove Rehabilitation Seen
- Pawikan Hatchlings Release
- CENRO KIAMBA Apprehends Illegally Cut Lumber
- Sixty-Nine (69) Olive Ridley Turtles Released
- Stranded Melon-Headed Whale
- Vigilance Against Crime Rising in Malungon
- Illegal Charcoal Intercepted
- CENRO Kiamba Conduct Coastal Clean-Up
- Wildlife Traffickers Busted
- Agriculture Officials Meet NGP Beneficiaries
- LAWIN Team Preempts Poaching
- One Green Sea Turtle Released
- Illegally Cut Lumber Apprehended
- Students Plant Mangroves in Sarangani Bay
- Migratory Waterfowl Seen in Glan, Sarangani
- Philippine Eagle Rescued
LAWIN Team Preempts Poaching
Glan, Sarangani Province, 9 February2017 – A LAWIN Team compose of personnel from DENR CENRO Glan, Sarangani Province recently found pile of lumber abandoned along the foot of Mount Matutum in Barangay Datal Batong, Malungon during a routine patrol. The poachers may have noticed the presence of the patrolling personnel and fled from the site to avoid apprehension. Initial investigation reveals that the lumber were taken from a felled Red Nato tree, a large timber species native in the Philippines listed as vulnerable species by the National List of Threatened Philippine Plants and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
The LAWIN Team is under the LAWIN Forest and Biodiversity Protection System that integrated a science-based assessment, user-friendly and the use of innovative technology on the monitoring the status of the forest. Through a mobile application called Cybertracker, members of the community living near a protected area can report forest conditions. With a simple touch on the screen, users can contribute to the monitoring of protected areas. Patrollers can also track threats such as illegal logging, kaingin, and construction of establishment in a protected area like Mount Matutum Protected Landscape.
With the assistance of the local PNP and the Provincial Government of Sarangani that had provided the vehicle during the operation, the 176 pieces of lumber with volume of 1,295 board feet were brought to the DENR while the case is being investigated. (Wenie G. Vergara and Dante Dichoso/DENR – Glan, Sarangani)