Masungi exec to DENR: We reforest amid danger, yet you question our contract?

MANILA, Philippines — A Masungi Georeserve trustee has slammed a Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) official for questioning the government’s contract with them, saying that they continue to reforest the area despite being “sitting ducks.”

During an ambush interview at the georeserve site in Rizal province, DENR Undersecretary Jonas Leones explained what the department would do, after the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine National Police secured the area amid fears of a private invasion.

Leones said that the DENR, as steward of all publicly-owned lands like the Masungi Georeserve, would review all contracts entered b…

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