QuestionsQuestions (PALAWAN COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT)
It is anchored on Republic Act No. 7611 (Strategic Environmental Plan for Palawan), which vests governance and policy direction in the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSO/PCSD), and on Republic Act No. 9147 (Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act) and its implementing IRR through the Joint DENR-DA-PCSD Administrative Order No. 01.
Republic Act No. 7611, the Strategic Environmental Plan (SEP) for Palawan. Its purpose is to provide a framework to guide government agencies in formulating plans, programs, and projects affecting Palawan’s environment and natural resources, consistent with sustainable development.
It provides that the SEP shall serve as the framework to guide concerned government agencies when formulating such plans, programs, and projects.
It states the policy to protect, develop, and conserve natural resources; to assist and support implementation of related plans and projects that preserve and enhance the environment while pursuing socioeconomic development goals.
Sustainable development of Palawan: improving the quality of life of people in the present and future generations through complementary development and conservation activities that protect life-support ecosystems and rehabilitate exploited areas.
ECAN is a graded system of protection and development control over Palawan, including tribal lands, forests, mines, agricultural areas, settlement areas, small islands, mangroves, coral reefs, seagrass beds, and surrounding sea.
Examples include: forest conservation and protection; protection of watersheds; preservation of biological diversity; protection of tribal people and their culture; maintenance of maximum sustainable yield; protection of rare and endangered species and their habitat; and provision of areas for research, education, training, tourism, and recreation.
It provides that the governance, implementation, and policy direction of the SEP shall be exercised by the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD/PCSO).
RA 9147 is the Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act. It aims to conserve the country’s wildlife resources and their habitats for sustainability.
The Council (PCSD) is the lead implementing agency in Palawan pursuant to RA 7611/SEP for Palawan.
It is described as the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of RA 9147. Its function is to prescribe procedures and guidelines for implementing the Wildlife Act across the whole of Philippine territory.
It states that most provisions of the IRR require implementation of the Wildlife Act in Palawan, which may be further detailed by the PCSD through a local administrative issuance.
It approved PCSD Administrative Order No. 12, titled “Detailed Guidelines in the Implementation of Republic Act No. 9147 and Joint DENR-DA-PCSD Administrative Order No. 01,” marked as Annex “A.”
It requires distribution of copies to all concerned government agencies for information and appropriate action, publication in a newspaper of general circulation, and furnishing to the Office of the National Administrative Register (ONAR) at UP Law Center, Diliman, Quezon City as required by existing laws.
It was adopted on 29 July 2011 in Puerto Princesa City, with the Secretary signed by Romeo B. Dorado and Chairman signed by Abraham Kahlib B. Mitra (as shown in the text).
Because administrative rules and regulations generally must be published and filed with the ONAR to ensure compliance with due process and to make them effective against the public, in line with existing laws on publication and registration of administrative issuances.