“Everywhere else in the world, when there is disaster, people ask for food. But in the Philippines, farmers are asking for seeds! The fiherfolks are asking for boats! They don’t want to depend forever on foreign support. They want to rely on their own strength and this is truly inspiring.” – Lord Jack McConnell, member of the UK House of Lords
Category: Environment
Yolanda survivors initially barred from submitting petition to Malacañang
“Why is it that President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III could personally welcome (there) an accused person like Janet Lim Napoles, but not the representatives of Yolanda victims who only tried to bring a petition signed by 17,585 survivors of Yolanda?”
After Typhoon Haiyan, survivors decry Aquino’s ‘profit driven reconstruction program’
“The Aquino government should have asked what the survivors feel, what is their way of life, what they really need.”
100 days post-Yolanda: Survivors ask Aquino to release aid, direct rehab to people & livelihood
“The Aquino government had enough time in the past three months to attend to the peoples’ basic needs. The fact that the people of Eastern Visayas are still demanding for food, livelihood, housing and social services is a testament to the Aquino government’s criminal negligence.”
US troops guilty of environmental crimes – green groups
A study by Kalikasan PNE revealed that the presence of US forces in the Asia Pacific region has resulted in adverse environmental impact.
Foreign Secretary del Rosario asked to resign for inaction on Tubbataha compensation
“US troops have a dirty streak across the Asia-Pacific region, posing environmental threats or even directly causing destruction and pollution over the past century in the Pacific Islands, Australia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, and even in their own country’s West Coast.” – Kalikasan PNE
Read also: Make US military pay damages in Tubbataha, green groups ask SC again
Floods affect Caraga, Davao regions
Floods worsened in Davao region and Caraga region (Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley) since this weekend following days of continuous rains.
International lawsuit vs Fukushima nuke makers, suppliers being readied
“Contaminated water [from the damaged nuclear power plant] goes back and forth into the Pacific Ocean – goes across to the Philippines, to the west side of America.”
Fisherfolk to protest against off limits zone policy in Yolanda ravaged coastal areas
“They want our people out of the coastal zones because they prefer big business groups who want to invest in Public-Private Partnership projects that would virtually transform Leyte and Samar coastal areas into export-bane processing zones in Region 8.”
Groups ask why Aquino govt not running after US Navy for destruction of Tubbataha reef
“The damage caused by the grounding of USS Guardian on Tubbataha Natural Reef Park is bigger, far more reaching and strategically fatal to the livelihood of Filipino fishermen and to the fishing environment directly linked to the protected reef park.”
6 heroes of the environment receive GBK awards in 2013
“The commitment to protect and nurture the environment and national patrimony is not an easy road to take. Not only does it require patience and perseverance, energies and strength of will, but in other times, it also costs peoples’ lives.” – Frances Quimpo, Center for Environmental Concerns