With a new secretary recently taking over the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), it may take some time for the agency to thresh out the complex issues surrounding the overlapping claims in the Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape (UMRBPL) and its surrounding areas, a senior official admitted on Thursday.

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