About six months after the government issued an executive order calling for a moratorium on the cutting and harvesting of timber in national and residual forests, the country’s wood industry is complaining about a number of problems that have started to affect their profitability. Read the rest of this entry »
Responding to the wood sector’s woes
September 26, 2011
Wood producers appeal log ban
August 25, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Wood Producers Association (PWPA) is urging the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to start the evaluation of operations of all wood producers to enable a more realistic review of the wood industry’s request for the lifting of the total log ban. Read the rest of this entry »
Mindanao wood processors want EO 23 provisions changed
June 9, 2011
Northern Mindanao tree planters and wood processors are asking the Environment Department to return the one-year supply contract for “tree planted species” instead of the five-year supply contract mandated by Executive Order (EO) 23 or the moratorium on logging. Read the rest of this entry »
Smuggled plywood floods local market
May 25, 2011
A GROUP of local wood producers on Tuesday called on the government’s attention over the influx of substandard and smuggled imported plywood from China. Read the rest of this entry »
Sawmills trim operations after moratorium on timber cutting
April 19, 2011
The government’s moratorium on timber harvesting has started to take its toll on furniture makers as sawmill companies scaled down operations by trimming the working period to four instead of five days. Read the rest of this entry »
Fires destroy much of Phl forests, UN-FAO records show
April 17, 2011
NATIVIDAD, Pangasinan , Philippines – It’s summer, and expect some parts of the country’s vanishing forests to go up in smoke because of fires. Read the rest of this entry »
PhilExport urges gov’t to suspend total log ban
March 6, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. (PhilExport) has called for the immediate suspension of the implementation of the total log ban, citing dire consequence to the lucrative wood-based industries. Read the rest of this entry »
Wood producers seek more time to phase out logging activities
March 6, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – Wood producers holding industrial forest management agreements (IFMAs) or timber license agreements (TLAs) are appealing to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to give them more time for an orderly phase-out of their logging activities in natural and residual forests included in their contracts. Read the rest of this entry »
SPECIAL REPORT: Phl now a heavy importer of logs (Conclusion)
March 3, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – The grim projection is out: At the rate the Philippines is ravaging its natural resources, it world be the first Southeast Asian country to lose its forests within the first half of the present century. Read the rest of this entry »
SPECIAL REPORT: Phl now a heavy importer of logs (First of 2 parts)
March 2, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – Once a lavish exporter of logs. Now a heavy importer of this wood product.
Also, a big chunk of the country’s lumber and other forest products, on top of the imported logs, is now sourced from Asian and Pacific countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea) and as far as Canada in North America, Brazil in South America, South Africa, and Germany in Europe. Read the rest of this entry »
