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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

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Blocked, delayed, 1,000 Earth Day protesters hold another barricade in DavOr

By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today

The contingents were about to celebrate Earth Day as they scored the continuous large-scale logging in the province even after a log ban was enforced and typhoon Pablo has already ravaged the communities, especially that of indigenous peoples and peasants.

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Stranded Pablo mission rescued, military blamed

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today

Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay assailed the military's action as it “shows the government's desperation to cover up the situation of the victims of typhoon Pablo-- the neglect of the victims' needs, the corruption in its relief and rehabilitation efforts, and worst, the harassment of people who exposed these, leading to the killing of Cristina Jose, the leader of the Pablo victims' organization.”

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