The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said itwas working on new guidelines for cutting and earth-balling of trees amid public clamor for a ban on cutting of trees in light of the global problem on earth warming and climate change.
Secretary Lito Atienza said the department was banning on an interim basis the issuance of tree-cutting permits. Atienza said the department would be issuing earth-balling permits to allow for the transplantation of trees affected by development projects elsewhere.
Atienza also said developers must reorient their project designs in such a way that trees are preserved.
Forester Marlo Mendoza, director of the department’s Forest Management Bureau, said his agency would be proposing several technical considerations as to when tree cutting would be allowed and not allowed, and when earth-balling shall be required.
Among these proposals, Mendoza indicated that trees with historical significance like the Tandang Sora tree in Quezon City “must be avoided during any development projects” and that trees under threat of extinction from Philippine forest be given extra care when transferring them to their new site. –Fel V. Maragay, Manila Standard Today
June 2025
Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
1 Jun – World Day of Parents
5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against
Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 Jun – World Refugee Day
25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
