Mining activities in the southern Palawan municipality threaten the livelihood of communities dependent on agriculture, fisheries and forests, and affect the access of residents to clean water, Pala’wan leaders and youth said.
After being stripped of her post for vigorously opposing mining in her community, a local official in the Philippine province of Palawan is heading back to City Hall following a landslide victory in the country’s May 9 elections. Mary Jean Feliciano, who since July 2021 has been suspended without pay from her post as mayor […]
PALAWAN, Philippines Halfway through a one-year suspension without pay, Mary Jean Feliciano, the elected mayor of Brooke’s Point on the Philippine island of Palawan, is unbowed. Feliciano says her decision to storm, shut down and demolish a mining site the dramatic acts that led to her suspension was motivated by her desire […]
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