Philippines

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2017

• The Philippines: Defending the defenders, defending their rights

• Philippines: Women call to stop the bombings in Marawi and to revoke Martial Law in Mindanao  

• Large-scale investments and climate conservation initiatives destroy forests and people’s territories

• Biodiversity offsetting and biodiversity corridors in Asia: Nature destruction and protection acting in tandem

2015

• Philippines: Resisting Land Grabbing and Corporate Oil Palm Plantations

2013

• Philippines: Rally for the revocation of Philippine Mining Act

• Philippines: Indigenous women impacted by militarization for large-scale mining

• Philippines: Indigenous organizations challenge oil palm companies in Palawan

• Philippines: campaign against oil palm expansion

• MONOCULTURE TREE PLANTATIONS – Land grabbing for oil palm in the Philippines

2012

• Phillipines: Oil palm company A. Brown grabs Higaonon indigenous people’s lands

• Philippines: The increasing menace of oil palm plantations in Palawan

• Philippines: The death toll of oil palm and mining

• Philippines: Continuing the campaign against mining in Palawan

2011

• Philippines: Rally to stop Chinese mining in Palawan!

• Philippines: Attempts to undermine local resistance to mining

• Philippines: A call to stop mining in Palawan

• Mining and indigenous women in the Philippines

2010

• Philippines: Deforestation through mining subsidized by CDM project

2009

• Philippines: Oil and gas bringing misery and destruction in mangrove region

2002

• Philippines: Lessons on gender from community based forest management

• Philippines: Indigenous Peoples and the Convention on Biological Diversity

• Community Forestry in the Philippines

2001

• The Philippines: The decline of a megabiodiverse giant

• Philippines: Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Decline

• Philippines: Planting trees and terror

• Philippines: Local people against the San Roque dam

2000

• Philippines: A new approach on forests in Palawan

1999

• The Philippines: last remaining forests under threat

• The Philippines: dam megaproject resisted

• Philippines: remaining mangroves under siege

• Philippines: logging ban opposed by logger politicians

• Philippines: Canadian mining company against indigenous peoples

1998

• Multinational mining in The Philippines

Books and Briefings

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  Undermining the forests. The need to control transnational mining companies: a Canadian case study

  Posted on January 16, 2000

  by Forest Peoples Programme, Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links and the World Rainforest Movement The second in a series of reports on the impacts of transnational corporations (TNCs) on forests and forest peoples. Five country case...

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Other Relevant Information

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  Palawan: Stop blaming indigenous peoples’ farming practices for deforestation – look at boom crops, oil palm plantations and mining!

  Posted on November 10, 2015

  Traditional upland farming implemented through swidden (‘slash-and-burn’) technology (kaingin) in The Philippines is demonized and antagonized through restrictive legislation. In Palawan forests are being destroyed by agribusiness...

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  Washing out Diversity: The impacts of oil palm plantations in Palawan, Philippines

  Posted on March 6, 2015

  Oil palm plantations in Palawan, as elsewhere in the Philippines, are portrayed as a key solution to lower greenhouse gas emissions and as a tool for poverty eradication. However, reality shows a different picture. A report from...

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  Indigenous Peoples and farmers from Palawan in the Philippines submit a petition -signed by more than 4,200 people- to the government calling for a moratorium on oil palm expansion province wide – Press Release

  Posted on October 16, 2014

  Joint IPs/Farmers Coalition Hits Oil Palm Expansion in Palawan A press release by the Coalition against Land Grabbing (CALG), 13 October, 2014  Ramon Paje’s proposal to convert 8 millions of Philippine soil into oil palm plantations...

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  Gentle Treasures: Stories of women against mining

  Posted on February 28, 2013

  “Gentle Treasures: Stories of women against mining”, launched in March 2012 by Alyansa Tigil Mina (Alliance to Stop Mining), commemorates the contributions of Filipino women to the struggle against large-scale mining and the...

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  Oil palm and biofuel bulletin by ALDAW

  Posted on January 30, 2013

  Through its Google Group and Facebook page Aldaw will provide periodical updates of news and articles on oil palm development in the Philippines, as well as globally.The bulletin may include information and news on related topics suchas...

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  Sample letter to be sent to national authorities – The Philippines

  Posted on September 21, 2012

  ACTION ALERT – THE PHILIPPINES The indigenous peoples (Higaonons) and peasants of Opol in Misamis Oriental in Southern Philippines are currently struggling against land grabbing resulting from a monoculture oil palm plantation,...

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  Palawan: Our Struggle for Nature and Culture – VIDEO

  Posted on August 30, 2012

  A video documentary launched on July 27 by ALDAW, showing the cultural values of Palawan and the encroachment of mining operations in ancestral...

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Videos

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  Panalipdan ang kinabuhi

  Posted on September 11, 2011

  CEBUANO. Unsa ang kahulugan sa kalasangan ngadto sa katawhan? Kini nga kalasangan nagkahulugan og kinabuhi. apan unsa sa pikas bahin ang plantasyon sa...

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