ACT NO. 3983 . AN ACT TO PROTECT WILD FLOWERS AND PLANTS IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND TO PRESCRIBE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY MAY BE COLLECTED, KEPT, SOLD, EXPORTED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.Section 1. Except as provided in this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person in the Philippine Islands to take collect, kill, mutilate, or have in his or her possession, living or dead, or to purchase, offer or expose for sale, transport, ship, or export, alive or dead, any protected flowering plant, fern, orchid, lycopod or club moss or other wild plants in the Philippines.Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources to issue and promulgate regulations which shall specify from time to time the classes or species of the rate and flowering plants including orchids, ferns, lycopods or club mosses (known in some localities as buntot pusa or palawit), which shall be protected under this Act; and to issue such other regulations as may be necessary prescribing t...