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MANILA - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is closely scrutinizing the details of a 2017 memorandum of agreement (MOA) it signed with the Masungi Georeserve Foundation Inc. (MGFI) to ensure its consistency with the country's laws on protected areas. DENR-Region 4A Executive Director Nilo Tamoria, in a statement on Sunday, said the move was in line with the order of former Secretary Roy A. Cimatu to reevaluate the MOA and ascertain its consistency with the provisions of Republic Act 11038, or the Expanded National Integrated Protected Area Systems (E-NIPAS), which adopts strong amendatory measures to the 24-year old NIPAS law. "We are now evaluating the consistency of the provisions in the MOA with the E-NIPAS law," Tamoria said in a recent press conference with DENR OIC Secretary Jim O. Sampulna. The MOA covers the operation of an ecotourism park in Baras, Rizal, popularly known as "Masungi Georeserve," which sits inside the 26,124-hecta