The peoples organizations and the NGOs are compelled to protect the environment because the government who should have been doing it is not really doing it.
Palawan para-enforcers protecting the last ecological frontier
Marya Salamat
Success in sustainable bungkalan farming in Mindanao hailed at national confab
“We have to fight for our sake. We cannot just wait for them to implement land reform because they will never do it willingly.”
Honoring environmental warriors, green groups launch Envidefcon
“It is our mission to come together and strengthen our defense of the environment in peril.“
DENR questioned on ‘highly irregular’ environmental clearance for Kaliwa Dam
For all that it will destroy, Kaliwa dam will only produce 600 million liters of water daily. Yet, there are many alternative sources of water such as the 1.5 billion liters of water daily if government will rehabilitate the Wawa dam. By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – The government has not yet finished consulting with…
Manila Initiative urges real solutions to climate crisis
The initiative also calls attention to the preponderance of non-solutions to climate change being floated in global conferences that are supposed to find solutions.
US, Philippine BPO workers form solidarity for workers rights
“We are stronger together than when we are apart.”
Main findings of Global Witness 2019 Report
Vast natural resources and fertile soils have long attracted foreign investment to the Philippines, yet widespread corruption and a culture of impunity for unscrupulous companies has seen the profits disappear into the pockets of a tiny elite. – Global Witness
End of killings urged as PH turns deadliest for environmental defenders
“The ecological agriculture that landless farm workers have painstakingly carved out of the vast monoculture plantations of Negros sugar barons have been irrigated with blood and bullets.”
In New York, people’s movements hold Ground Level Political Forum for sustainable development
“Before it’s too late for our planet and for its peoples’, governments must listen to people and communities for just and equitable development.”
Scant gov’t response to climate change hitting farmers the hardest
Farmers’ harvests this year are disappointingly smaller than before – not just in amount but in size also of the grains itself.
NPA-Northern Samar raids ‘abusive Marawi battalion’
Since 2017 peasants and peasant women in Northern Samar have complained of extra-judicial killings, military encampment in public schools and in barangays, forcible mass evacuation affecting 2,423 victims, illegal arrest and detention, series of aerial bombing, psywar and surveillance, destruction of properties, sexual harassment and others.