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The Permanent Multisector Commission to Fight Illegal Logging (CMLTI), led by the Vice Ministry of Policies and Supervision of Agrarian Development of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Econ. Christian Garay Torres, joins efforts to confront illegal logging and associated trade with the support and commitment of the regional governor of Ucayali, Manuel Gambini Rupay and the accompaniment of his technical team from the Regional Forestry and Wildlife Management. In the second ordinary decentralized session held in Pucallpa, the members of the CMLTI and the regional government toured the timber traceability route in the region, which included the landing areas, transformation centers and strategic control posts associated with the mobilization of wood products.
Vice Minister Christian Garay reported that in the session agreements were adopted to generate synergies and strengthen control and monitoring in transformation centers, as well as the transportation of products, improving the supervision of administrative acts of plantations, changes of use and deforestation. It is important to strengthen all these processes that involve the chain of public intervention so that illegal wood becomes formal and generates jobs and reaches the international market, in accordance with international requirements, he stressed.
For her part, the executive director of the National Forestry and Wildlife Service (SERFOR), Nelly Paredes Del Castillo, indicated that they seek to fight against illegal logging that threatens our valuable resources. At SERFOR, our objective is to provide practical knowledge that serves as a basis for strategic decisions and concrete actions, she highlighted. The meeting in Ucayali continued the work developed in the first decentralized session in Loreto last March, which reaffirms the commitment of all institutions to combat illegal logging and promote forest sustainability.
The decentralized sessions of the CMLTI had the participation of observers from the Comptroller General of the Republic and the Coordination of the Executive Board of Forestry Development of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; and with the technical assistance and support of the US Forest Service and the USAID - USFS FOREST+ Program. The CMLTI is made up of 15 national entities such as the ministries of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Culture, Defense, Foreign Relations, Labor and Social Promotion, and Environment; the Specialized Prosecutors Office for Environmental Matters, the General Directorate of Captaincies and Coast Guard, the Environmental Directorate of the National Police of Peru, the National Forestry and Wildlife Service.
In addition, it is made up of the Forestry and Wildlife Resources Supervision Agency, the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State, the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration, the National Seized Assets Program and the Surveillance Directorate. Amazonian and National.
