‘Hot’ logs seized in Nueva Ecija, Bulacan

NUEVA ECIJA, Philippines — Illegally cut lumber have been seized in Nueva Ecija and Bulacan.

Reports reaching Col. Richard Caballero, Nueva Ecija police director, showed that personnel of the First Provincial Mobile Force Company and Bongabon town police seized 280 board feet of illegally cut white lawaan and three pieces of yakal on Friday.

The illegally cut logs were turned over to the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Cabanatuan City.

In Bulacan, the provincial public affairs office reported that two persons were arrested for illegal possession of 50 pieces of illegally cut narra during an Oplan Kalikasan operation on Wednesday.