BASED ON THE MAP showing the boundaries of the Catanduanes Natural Park (in green, right map) and the location of the Small-Scale Coal Mining site covered by a DOE permit given to Adelberto Almario (top left map), the five-hectare site for the manual extraction of coal is outside the confines of the CNP which is considered a protected area and closed to mineral exploration and extraction. The Diocese of Virac (lower left) is stridently opposing the proposed coal mining.
