nick
12-05-2004, 10:24 AM
http://earthobservatory.nas a.gov/Study/recovery/Images/logging.jpg
"LUMPING illegal loggers together with terrorists and drug dealers, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered all logging activity in the country suspended after massive floods in Luzon blamed on rampant tree-felling left over 1,000 people dead or missing.
Ms Arroyo, in a statement released by Malacañang yesterday, also urged Congress to amend the environmental laws and impose harsher penalties on illegal loggers and corrupt officials in cahoots with them."
A bit late, isn’t it?
From the Inquirer (http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=20213).
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