By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Leleng Zarsuela, 73, shook with rage when she spoke of the urban poor Filipinos’ indignation at the injustices buried within the issue of climate change. “We, the urban poor, are always blamed for flooding,” she said as an example, “when the real group to blame comes from those few…
Category: Environment
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
Likely collapse of LCMC tailings dam walls spooks Benguet folks
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG NORTHERN DISPATCH BANGUED, Abra – Residents of Mankayan, Benguet who attended the Benguet, Abra, Mt. Province, Ilocos Sur (BAMPIS) Mining Summit held here expressed fears that the plan of Goldfields Far South East to build additional walls to the tailings dam 5A mean there are more mine tailings to expect on…
Mine-affected communities mine their experiences at opposing large-scale mining
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG NORTHERN DISPATCH BAGUED, Abra – “I am very glad to see many people here. It means that we are not the only ones fighting against corporate mining.” This is how Dominga Gaspar, member of the Barangay Council of Gambang, Bakun, Benguet, started her testimony at the Benguet, Abra, Mt. Province, Ilocos…
Photo of the week: Panata’y ipagtanggol ang kalikasan
An elderly Igorot in a protest action against foreign mining in Nueva Vizcaya. Photo by Clemente Bautista (Bulatlat.com)
Academe, health workers honor renowned Filipino botanist
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL Northern Dispatch The Search for justice continues BAGUIO CITY—In commemoration of the first year anniversary of the senseless killing of the topnotch Filipino ethno-botanist, Leonard Co, the Community Heath Education Services and Trainings in the Cordillera Region (CHESTCORE) and his colleagues and friends offered a tribute and re-launched his book, “Common…
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
Leonard Co remembered with tree-planting ceremony and re-launch of “Common Medicinal Plants of Cordillera”
By LYN V. RAMO BAGUIO CITY — The book on medicinal plants and herbs in the Cordillera, which the late botanist Leonard Co wrote in the ’70s was re-launched on his first death anniversary in this city. A tree-planting and exhibits of Leonard Co’s works were also some of the highlights of the commemoration. Community…
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.
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
Gov’t Moves To Exempt Mining From Total Log Ban
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (November 11, 2011) — The government is moving to exempt corporate mining from total log ban policy, Leo Jasareno, director of Mines and Geosciences, said in a discussion about Philippine mining at the Minerals Industry Symposium held at Camp John Hay last Thursday. The exemption from total log ban…