The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) - through its Environmental Law Enforcement and Protection Service (ELEPS) together with the assistance from DENR CALABARZON Regional Office, DENR Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO)-Lipa, and Protected Area Management Office-Taal Volcano Protected Landscape (PAMO-TVPL) - arrested another set of culprits in an anti-illegal quarrying operation- November 26, 2021.

As a result of the DENR enforcement operations, fifteen illegal miners were apprehended and are currently undergoing legal procedures in violation of the Republic Act (RA) 11038 or the Expanded National Integrated Protected Area Systems (E-NIPAS) Act of 2018, RA 7942, or the Philippine Mining Act of 1995, Presidential Decree 705 or The Revised Forestry Reform Code of the Philippines, and RA 9275 or the Clean Water Act.

Confiscated during the operations were three backhoes, two screeners used to define and segregate the liberated and extracted sand and gravel materials, and a truck loaded with 127 board feet of round logs and 122.83 board feet of lumber.

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Published: 23 December 2021