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LOGS, EVERYWHERE. Thousands of logs are stored in Baganga town’s port area where the lumber company Baganga Plywood Corporation is also located. Edgar Ladjao, a local of Davao Oriental, said logging has not stopped in the province despite the total log ban ordered by President Noynoy Aquino in February 2011. (davaotoday.com photo by John Rizle L. Saligumba)

Eye in the Sky vs. illegal logging

Can drones or the eye in the sky help save our dwindling forests?

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Read more about the article Foreign peace advocates score “neglected” condition in Typhoon Pablo areas

Foreign peace advocates score “neglected” condition in Typhoon Pablo areas

By TYRONE A. VELEZ
Davao Today

“My taxes are sent (here) for military aid. Money should build roads, should be given to health care, decent things for the people, not military aid,” says Ron Gochez of Union del Barro, Los Angeles.

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Read more about the article Govt, advocates lament lack of info, systematic data on human trafficking
Information posters on the dangers of human trafficking were unveiled at the NCCC Mall Activity Center as part of the the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking in Persons XI (IACAT XI)’s campaign to educate the public to be involved in the campaign. (davaotoday.com photo by John Rizle Saligumba)

Govt, advocates lament lack of info, systematic data on human trafficking

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said during the IACAT advocacy campaign launch, he would confront human trafficking with the same intensity as that of drug trafficking cases. “In my book, I have placed illegal recruiters on the level of drug traffickers. It has the same effect to society.”

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