Mindanao Natural Resources, Protectors under Seige
Publisher: Bulatlat.com
Author(s): Marya Salamat
Date: 2014
Topics: Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
Countries: Philippines
Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) warned that the largely undocumented biodiversity in Pantaron Range might disappear, along with the indigenous knowledge of the Talaingod Manobos who have protected the forests of the mountain range over the past decades, if they continue to be driven out of their ancestral domain as a result of massive troop deployment and military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).