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MINDANAO DAILY YOUR MINDANAO-WIDE NEWSPAPER
Volume VII, No. 158 Website: www.mindanaodailynews.com
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November 28, 2017
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BIFF, recruiting children, teenagers in Norcot: Army Local officials told to adopt five endangered tree species By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor and MELODY C. GEOLAGON Contributor
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur--Five kinds of endemic trees which are still seen in different parts of the province will be taken care of by local officials to save their diminishing species. This was realized after the provincial government implemented the Community Awareness on Resources and Environment (CARE) project enjoining municipal and barangay officials to adopt the endangered trees found in their respective areas. The Provincial Environment and Natu-
ral Resources Office-Local Government Unit (PENRO-LGU) has identified the endemic trees as White Lauan, two kinds of Philippine Iron Wood or Magcono, Dao, Toog and Narra. Officials at the PENRO-LGU said these rare kinds of trees underwent tedious process in the identification and nomination of possible flora and fauna and inculcating the importance of endemic species conservation before they were submitted for adoption to the host villages where they are still sighted. Among the towns and villages which adopted the endemic trees are See tree, page 11
By Malu Cadelina-Manar MindaNews
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IDAPAWAN City-The Bangsmaoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) is recruiting children and teenagers in North Cotabato to join their group, Capt. Edwin Encinas, chief of the Public Affairs Office of the Army’s 602nd Brigade, said. But Encinas could not say how many have been recruited in North Cotabato by the alleged IS-inspired BIFF faction under Esmael Abdulmalki alias Abu Torayfe. “We monitored their recruitment during the See ARMY, page 11
The Toog tree in Barangay Algeria in San Francisco town is listed as the world’s third tallest tree measured 65 meters is among the five species adopted by LGUs to preserve their diminishing kind.
Only half of IDPs still remain in Oro By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
CAGAYAN de Oro City-Only around 9,000 out of 19,464 persons displaced during the seiged in Marawi City have opted to remain in the city. According to Jong Pamisa of the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWD), the rest have already returned a week ago after it was determined that
they were residents of the 17 Marawi City barangays cleared by the government. The evacuees who remained here were residents of the so-called “main battle area” in Marawi that have yet to be cleared by the government for unexploded ordnance, debris, etc. Momentarily, these internally displaced persons (IDPs) enrolled themselves in the ten-day-long See REMAIN, page 11
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