'We'll cut you down if we are not able to cut the trees,' says the text message sent to biology teacher, Deign Frolley Soriano

On the night of Monday, July 13, just as he was about to go to bed, Deign Frolley Soriano, a biology teacher from the University of the Philippines Baguio, received a chilling text message.

"kung hndi nmin matumba mga puno, ikaw itu2xmba namin," it said. (We'll cut you down if we are not able to cut the trees.)

That morning, Soriano had testified before the Baguio City Council on the devastating effects of cutting the remaining pine trees in the city.

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