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PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur, July 30 (PNA) -– A group of environmentalists, peace advocates
and church-based organizations are set to hold a six-day environment tour in
this province.
The six-day activity,
dubbed as Philippine Learning Tour, will commence on Friday, August 1.
It will be
spearheaded by the People’s Defense of Patrimony Against Destructive
Large-Scale Mining, Enviromental Plunder and Development Aggression (PROTECT);
Advocates for Peace (AdPeace); and, church-based organizations.
Dipolog City Bishop
Jose Manguiran, PROTECT chairperson, said Wednesday the tour’s objective is in
pursuit of the gift of life and as expression of solidarity to the Indigenous
Peoples (IPs), whose ancestral domain was encroached by mining firms.
Manguiran said the tour is also aimed to verify the reported violation of human rights and the extent of damages within the IPs ancestral domain.
Manguiran said the
six-day environment tour is in response to the appeal from the IPs and non-IPs
whose ancestral domain was destroyed by mining firms.
He said among the
places they will visit are the mine site in Sitio Balabag, Barangay Depore in
Bayog town; Midsalip town, among others.
Philippine
Independent Church Bishop Antonio Ablon said God ordained the human beings to
be the stewards of His creation.
However, Ablon said
that today God’s creation “is groaning because many times human have failed to
become responsible keepers of what God has entrusted to them.”
He noted that the
country is rich in mineral resources and that foreign mining firms are taking
advantage “of our government’s subservient to foreign control and domination.”
He said investment in
mining by foreign firms greatly contributes to the destruction of the
environment and displaced the IPs who are the common dwellers of the gradually
disappearing green habitat.
Ablon explained this
is the reason why “countless have died” due to calamities and hunger. (PNA)
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