SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao: The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DENR-ARMM) has allocated some 18,000 board feet of confiscated lumber for classroom desks and other structures in public schools in the different ARMM municipalities.

The “hot lumber,” confiscated and impounded in a series of operations for the past 16 weeks by a joint team of the Philippine National Police, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and local government units in Datu Blah Sinsuat town in Maguindanao, was smuggled from rainforests in the hinterlands of the autonomous region.

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