July 2018 - Kalikasan

PH now 2nd deadliest country in the world for environmental defenders says global report

By KPNE Secretariat July 24, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 24 July 2018 At least 48 cases of environment-related killings in 2017 has made the Philippines the second deadliest country in the world for environmental defenders—and Asia’s deadliest…

SANCTION, PROHIBIT SINGLE-USE PLASTIC MULTINATIONALS

By KPNE Secretariat July 15, 2018Articles

PRESS STATEMENT 15 July 2018 The Philippines has been consistently in the top three contributors to marine plastic pollution since 2014 but the biggest sources come from multinational corporations overseas.…

No rehab plan, no reason to keep Boracay fully closed, says Kalikasan

By KPNE Secretariat July 10, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 10 July 2018 Calling the continued closure of Boracay Island as unjust, unscientific, and untransparent, activists led by the Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) picketed…

Police blocking of envi scientists’ probe raises more questions than answers on so-called Boracay ‘rehab’

By KPNE Secretariat July 4, 2018Articles

PRESS STATEMENT 04 July 2018 Are scientists also banned in Boracay? Is there a policy to prohibit independent scientific inquiry for the benefit of a science-informed policy and governance in…

Raps vs DENR exec should compel trash return back to Canada

By KPNE Secretariat July 1, 2018Articles

PRESS STATEMENT 01 July 2018 The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment welcomes the Ombudsman’s suspension order against DENR undersecretary Juan Miguel Cuna over the incident involving the importation of…

BORACAY FACT-CHECK | Roque unscientific in attributing whale shark sighting to Boracay ‘rehab’

By KPNE Secretariat July 1, 2018Articles

Sighting not an excuse to justify offloading workers in Boracay How can the government claim that the whale shark sighting is related to the success of its so-called rehabilitation efforts…