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Zambales folk resist mining

By DEE AYROSO
“Before the mining started, the environment was pristine. We lived on farming, and the harvest was plentiful. Now, when it rains, red water rises.”
‘Aquino hypocritical in blaming, pushing away Pantukan landslide victims’

By MARYA SALAMAT
"Small-scale mining is not the only cause, and is not even the biggest cause, of the destruction of Pantukan's erstwhile forest lands… large-scale commercial logging operations since the 50s and large-scale mining operations of the past 30 years have massively denuded the mountains of Compostela Valley."
US sabotaging UN climate talks in South Africa – environmental groups

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"In Durban, it’s time for governments to listen to the people, not the polluting corporations.” – Greenpeace
The passion of famed botanist Leonard Co

By MARYA SALAMAT
To continue with the campaign for justice, a "struggle against forgetting" is launched on the first death anniversary of the workaholic, generous scientist and the rest of Kananga 3.
Sidebar: Leonard Co remembered with tree-planting and re-launch of Common Medicinal Plants of Cordillera
Green groups slam exemption of mining companies from log ban

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"It's criminal that the government continues to allow these corporations to take over our forests, deplete our mineral resources and destroy our forest ecosystem.” – Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment
A year of mourning, yearning for justice for the Kananga 3

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL and INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Leonard's family and the public continue to thirst for justice in the face of the turtle-pace investigation. It angers us that already a year has passed and still not a single word or action can be felt from the Aquino administration.” – Dr. Giovanni Tapang, convenor of the Justice for Leonard Co Movement.
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