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Rehabilitation, not reclamation, needed to address food problems

By KPNE Secretariat October 16, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 16 October 2018 The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment joined fisherfolk who held a picket-dialogue at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) office on World…

PH reentry into UN Human Rights Council should lead to full-blown investigation, greens say

By KPNE Secretariat October 15, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 15 October 2018 The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment called on the Philippine government not to use its recent election into the United Nations’ Human Rights Council…

WOMAN WHO HIT CEBU QUARRY DISASTER IN FRONT OF DUTERTE NOW IN HIDING

By KPNE Secretariat September 27, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 27 September 2018 The middle-aged woman who recently decried the quarrying operations as the root cause of the landslide disaster* in front of President Rodrigo Duterte—right after he…

PROTEST AT MINERS’ CONFAB DEMAND JUSTICE FOR ITOGON DISASTER

By KPNE Secretariat September 20, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 20 September 2018 Protesters led by the Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) stormed the International Conference of the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP),…

PUNISHMENT OF BIG MINES, NOT DUTERTE’S WORD WAR WITH CHURCH NEEDED OVER BENGUET LANDSLIDES

By KPNE Secretariat September 17, 2018Articles

PRESS STATEMENT 17 September 2018 How callous, unthinking and unfeeling Rodrigo Duterte is for doing nothing but only badmouthing priests in Benguet in response to the landslide that took the…

Only 1 of 9 pro-environment claims in Duterte’s SONA found accurate

By KPNE Secretariat August 8, 2018Articles

PRESS RELEASE 08 August 2018 Only 1 of 9 pronouncements on environmental protection and sustainability made during President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address were found to be accurate…

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…