“If we don’t fight now, when we grow up, we won’t have anything to fight for because it’s already too late.”
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#ClimateStrike | Lumad youth demand halt to environment plunder
“Wanting to educate ourselves is our way of fighting those who threaten the environment we vowed to protect.”
Sampung pinakamatinding kampanya para sa kalikasan
Bibilib ka talaga sa mga Pinoy environmental defenders sa walang pagod at walang sawa nilang pagkilos.
‘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.
Support to Mindanao people’s defense of land, environment, urged
“The Talaingod Manobos who are now just returning to their lands are still in need of food, medicines, blankets and other materials in order to rebuild their lives. They need our support in filing complaints and lobbying against the military before the Commission on Human Rights, Philippine Congress, Philippine courts, and up to the level of the United Nations.”
Mindanao natural resources, protectors under siege
Kalikasan PNE warns that the largely undocumented biodiversity in Pantaron Range might disappear, along with indigenous knowledge of the Talaingod Manobos who have protected the forests of the mountain range for decades, if they continue to be driven out of their ancestral domain by massive troop deployment and military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
‘We shall defend our land, we shall never surrender’
“Land is our life. Water springs from here and we live here.” These are the statements of several Datu of the indigenous group Manobo, led by Datu Guibang, who has become a local legend. They declared it to us journalists in the hinterlands of Talaingod, Davao del Norte on May 14 as they call on…
Defenders of one of last remaining old forests need our support
KALIBUTAN: The Pantaron people’s struggle is a legitimate and just defense of Lumad land, life and the environment.