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While the Masungi Georeserve continues to fight on all fronts – legal, political, and territorial – forest rangers like Nilbert remain on the ground, steadfast in their daily work of protecting and growing the forest.
“There are a lot of vested interests here, particularly powerful people. They are trying to block the restoration efforts because there is something else that they want to do, especially with the lands."
Environment Secretary Gina Lopez' order to close several mines and cancel mining contracts was a move long awaited by mining-affected communities.
Environmentalists hope government action against destructive firms will lead towards reorientation of the mining industry.
A national conference on mining held recently concluded that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo serves as an instrument of corruption and plunder by foreign mining corporations and declared her ouster as an urgent agenda. BY FELICISIMO H. MANALANSAN, JR....
The summer capital of the country is also the most hazard-prone, with one-third of the city prone to landslides, said government geologists. BY ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – The summer capital city of Baguio is considered by government geologists as the...
“The mine will only aggravate poverty among the people. DENR has started to unleash an environmental time bomb with the full commercial operation of Lafayette.” – Trixie Concepcion, Defend Patrimony spokesperson and geologist BY LISA ITO Bulatlat In complete...
The government’s Inter-Agency Task Force that once “burned the night lamp” if only to solve land disputes in Rizal town, Kalinga has been revived with the mission of rooting out the problem so that there will be no repeat of the June 25 carnage between “settlers”...
BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 29, August 26-September 1, 2007 TUBA, Benguet – Philex’s open-pit mines in a 98-hectare gold-rich area in Barangay (village) Camp 3 here are being operated illegally, a government lawyer has disclosed. Although...
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