Underlying the difficulties anti-illegal logging efforts face in some regions of the world, 1,000 board feet of illegally sawn lumber and a sawmill were found on the front lawn of a Philippine mayor whose house is under construction, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. On Wednesday evening personnel in the country's Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) tailed a dump truck containing the lumber to a home owned by Bagac Mayor Ramil del Rosario. The driver of the dump truck escaped, and the mayor says his workers were just trying to show the fruits of what was actually a provincial anti-illegal-logging operation. The overwhelming evidence, however, points to a dirty politician.
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