The City Council also expressed its “opposition/objection to any future mineral mining in the City of Sagay.
The diocese also stressed that the Himogaan River is also culturally significant, hosting “Adlaw Sang Suba” and supporting tourism, irrigating sugarcane fields, and aiding coastal fishing.
Alminaza said the gravity of the situation calls for collective and meaningful action to mitigate the negative impacts of the climate crisis
Under the proposed law, the ICC/IP shall be paid not more than 2% of the gross output of minerals produced from the ancestral domain
Earlier this month, the Department of Health said that TVI had not yet submitted the required HIA for its planned third coal plant
Global Witness pointed out that “more environmental defenders have been killed in the country than anywhere else in the region over the past 11 years.”
Mainstreaming L&D will likely take years, even decades, given various challenges that also make popularizing climate change difficult
Data from Kalikasan PNE indicates even graver figures, with 21 defenders killed and 11 abductions of 19 defenders reported.