THE Masungi Georeserve Foundation has expressed alarm over a plan of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to cancel the 2017 memorandum of agreement that paved the way for the creation of the Masungi Geopark Project reforestation project.
Dumaliang was reacting to a statement made by DENR officials that the MOA was unconstitutional and is “void ab initio” or void from the very beginning. “The DENR cannot even watch over protected areas, and yet they still want to remove one of the organizations helping sustain these?” Dumaliang said, partly in Filipino, in reaction to the DENR’s statement.
“A close reading of the contract will reveal that we can only manage the project for as long as the law or constitution allows, which is yet to be determined by the courts for conservation,” she said. Dumaliang asserted that the Memorandum of Agreement remains valid and binding until the court declares that it is void.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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