DENR taps drone to fight loggers in Sierra Madre

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The government’s battle against illegal loggers at the Sierra Madre mountain ranges in northern Quezon will get a boost through an eye in the sky.

Telan said their latest operation recovered at least 8,000 board feet of sawn lumber from assorted hardwood species.

“The drone lessens the risk and danger for forest rangers. We can search the area [using the drone] … before making our move,” Rexmel Telan, a forest technician in Cenro-Real, said in an online interview.

 

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