President Marcos should do more to stop large-scale mining, illegal logging, quarrying and “destructive” projects that kill forests and gouge the land, progressive groups said. | dempseyreyesINQ MariejoRamosINQ /PDI
Mr. Marcos said long-term flood control projects should include planting trees on those denuded mountains where Severe Tropical Storm “Paeng” dumped heavy rains last week.
He said the disappearance of the country’s forest cover “accelerated” during the 20-year rule of the President’s father, who granted logging licenses to his cronies.Mariano urged the President to show his willingness to address the climate crisis by ordering an immediate “effective moratorium” on land-use conversion.
“It is hypocritical of the President to suggest tree planting as a flood control measure when it is his father who allowed the destructive logging operations of his cronies,” said Narra-Youth chair Zoe Caballero in a statement.Citing an article from the Martial Law Museum, Caballero said these logging operations “wiped out” 8 million hectares of the country’s forests, an area about as big as Mindanao Island. Of this number, 2 million hectares were “severely damaged,” according to the article.
Caballero said that 50 years after the Marcos dictatorship, “our forests are still recovering from the massive deforestation.” It said that the fishpond lease agreement provision of his father’s Presidential Decree No. 704 led to the massive destruction of mangrove forests. The group urged the administration to pursue mangrove reforestation as a means to prevent intense flooding caused by sea-level rise and extreme weather events related to climate change.“Unless Marcos Jr. recognizes that it was during his late dictator father’s term when vast tracts of mangroves and forest covers were wiped out, his statement for tree planting is nothing but pure lip service,” said Arambulo.
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