http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20110402-329005/Sierra-Madre-loggers-defy-Aquino-EO
Partido Kalikasan (PK) lauds Father Pete Montallana of the Save Sierra Madre Movement (SSMN) for his courageous expose of the continuing illegal logging in Northern Quezon despite PNoy's EO 23 imposing moratorium on the cutting of logs in p...rimary and secondary forests nationwide.
While we continue to join more and more groups in pushing for the Sustainable Forest Management Bill currently pending in Congress to further institutionalize the policy gain from EO 23, we recognize that policies are only as good as they can be fully implemented.
Father Pete's expose shows that the government's current EO is being violated as early as now.
This is a clear test of the resolve and political will of the President and DENR Secretary Ramon Paje whether they are truly serious about this policy or if this was just another one of those PR stint to raise their respective ratings.
This is important now with the sudden dipping of PNoy's approval rating and Paje's need to prove himself worthy of staying at the helm of DENR with the post election political promise of DENR seemingly committed to another politician come July.
Let see how this story unfolds eventually. Do we have a government which has the political will to implement its own forest conservation policy? We will see.
Roy Cabonegro
Secretary General
Partido Kalikasan (Philippine Green Party)
Email: roycabonegro@yahoo.com
PK Website: http://partidokalikasan.grouply.com
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