Since 1994 the national Philippine government makes serious efforts to stop the illegal logging. Laws and rigid regulations were announces and conservation programs were started in order to protect the rainforest. 

The anti- logging operators are especially against the misuse of licenses. Licenses are permits only for  a limited cutting of trees. Just for forest- management. However, the practice is that these permits are more than once used for commercial logging. Misused! Recent actions of the DENR were succesfull in Northern Samar.

To be a member of an anti-logging group, not without danger!

In June 6, 2001, a fragmentation grenade was thrown at the tent used as a temporary shelter for anti-logging environmentalists. 

It was seen as a miracle that the hand grenade didn't explode. Investigation showed that  its pin was already removed and that the safety lever already was detached.

The eight environmentalists, who were resting inside the tent, would have been killed if the grenade had gone off. It was thought that the attack was meant ´to silence´ the anti-logging groups.