Fisherfolk tells Tourism Dept: ‘Hands off Gigantes Islands’
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In peril: Southeast Asia’s environment and its defenders (Part 1 of 2)
In peril: Southeast Asia’s environment and its defenders (Part 1 of 2)
With so much biodiversity and unique ecosystems holding economically valuable natural resources, Asia is an alarming hotspot of biodiversity loss.
Cayetano crying ‘wolf!’ against UN Human Rights Council
Cayetano crying ‘wolf!’ against UN Human Rights Council
It is ironic that the Philippine government still holds the vice presidency of the UN Human Rights Council’s Bureau despite its flagrant disregard of human rights.
No clear plan for Boracay rehab, experts say
No clear plan for Boracay rehab, experts say
“The government must conduct a thorough assessment of the Boracay Island and identify appropriate mitigating measures to address the degrading state of the island.”
Save Taliptip
Save Taliptip
That P735.6-billion reclamation budget from SMC seemed to have been enough for NEDA to ignore the thousands of people to be displaced and the ecologically critical vegetation to be damaged.
Democratic Space | Does Duterte intend to clean up Boracay with bullets and bombs?
Democratic Space | Does Duterte intend to clean up Boracay with bullets and bombs?
Boracay needs scientists, engineers, development planners, social workers, and community organizers, not the hundreds of troops and police.
Green activists to DOJ: Withdraw proscription list, defend environment instead
Green activists to DOJ: Withdraw proscription list, defend environment instead
“Green activists are being terror-listed, slapped with harassment charges, faced with martial rule, and even murdered as if environmental activism is a crime.”
Big-ticket projects could ease out Pinoy biz, jobs in Boracay ‘rehab’ – Bayan Muna
Big-ticket projects could ease out Pinoy biz, jobs in Boracay ‘rehab’ – Bayan Muna
“It is already clear to the public that Duterte’s directive to rehabilitate the island is only a “lutong macau” because there are already giant conglomerates that will replace local infrastructures and businesses in the island.”
Chinese casino to replace local businesses in Boracay
Chinese casino to replace local businesses in Boracay
"We do not object the rehabilitation of Boracay, it must have been done before. But we will not let a foreign company to enter and plunder our resources and violate our patrimony in the name of profit."
Suspected soldiers shoot dead an anti-mining farmer in Pantukan
Suspected soldiers shoot dead an anti-mining farmer in Pantukan
Agudo Quillio, 52, was chairperson of a peasant organization in Pantukan, a staunch opponent of the operation of American-owned St. Augustine Mines Ltd, and banana plantation owners' spreading monopoly of peasant and IP land.
Digging deeper into the global mining context | 4 ominous trends in global mining
Digging deeper into the global mining context | 4 ominous trends in global mining
Understanding the global mining industry’s “Boom and Bust” behavior of weakening surges and worsening downturns is critical, as it affects the export-oriented and foreign-dominated local mining industry.
Aytas defend ancestral domain vs. quarrying
Aytas defend ancestral domain vs. quarrying
“The local government is claiming our land but our elders know the land where they and the elders before them had lived. We put up this barricade in front of the marker delineating our CADT (Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title).
‘We’re all challenged to defend the environment’ — Bibiaon Bigkay
‘We’re all challenged to defend the environment’ — Bibiaon Bigkay
She doesn’t fear Duterte’s threat of killing them all; she fears more the threat of seeing our natural resources, and the virgin forest, destroyed.
‘Heed lessons of old dams’ | Groups oppose China stakes in mega-dam projects
‘Heed lessons of old dams’ | Groups oppose China stakes in mega-dam projects
The dam projects will flood communities, drive away residents and redirect the river’s water away from farming communities.
Four heroic women for Mother Earth
Four heroic women for Mother Earth
But hope springs eternal. Environmental defenders everywhere are tirelessly working to protect the last frontiers of nature and restore our despoiled environment.
Fool’s gold under Duterte
Fool’s gold under Duterte
It looks like gold, shimmers like gold. But scrape its surface off and it's just muck. Like Duterte's promised 'change.'
Cha-cha proposals to aggravate Mining Act’s 23 years of abuses, disasters
Cha-cha proposals to aggravate Mining Act’s 23 years of abuses, disasters
Cha-cha seeks to constitutionalize the Mining Act's FTAA scheme that allows 100% foreign ownership and large-scale extraction of our mineral resources.
‘Mining Act on steroids’ | Why cha-cha will worsen plunder of PH resources
‘Mining Act on steroids’ | Why cha-cha will worsen plunder of PH resources
Proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution expand and deepen the control and scope allowed for foreign businesses.
Groups slam Appeals Court order releasing alleged mastermind in Ortega slay
Groups slam Appeals Court order releasing alleged mastermind in Ortega slay
“For us, they might not be the murderers of our children, spouses, or kin, but they represent the thousands of killings that have not reached as far as putting the perpetrators to jail.”
Green group demands release of ‘illegally arrested’ environmentalist
Green group demands release of ‘illegally arrested’ environmentalist
'It is not a crime to defend the environment.'
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