Kalikasan-Philippine Network for the Environment Kalikasan-PNE the local partner-organization of Global Witness said that in its own count under the. ENVIRONMENTAL activist group Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment Kalikasan PNE has called for an investigation into attacks against two forest rangers of the Masungi Georeserve.
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DENR mulls arming forest rangers.
Arming forest rangers kalikasan people's network. MANILA Philippines Environmental activists are cool to the idea of arming forest rangers of government saying it would only do more harm than good. In Myanmar a woman was run over by the truck of a mining company. And activists opposing coal-fired power plants in Thailand fell victim to enforced.
Forest ranger Erik Vetudes checks a confiscated log at the Ipo Dam watershed in Norzagaray town in Bulacan. In its submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council the group Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment noted that at least 19498 environmental defenders were subjected to a wide range of human rights abuses under the Duterte administration. Dulce said at least 23 forest rangers and civil society para-enforcers have been killed across the country during the same period.
In a statement on Friday September 6 Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment Kalkasan PNE said the killing of forest ranger Bienvenido Toto Veguilla Jr. A forest ranger and conservation worker was killed by illegal loggers in Keo Seima Sanctuary in Cambodia. Was proof that working to protect the environment has become hazardous.
The Rangers oversee the departments tactical program and operations which includes the DPS SWAT Team six Regional Special Response Teams a Ranger Recon Team an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team and crisis negotiators assigned to each DPS Region. But the Kalikasan- Philippine Network for the Environment Kalikasan- PNE opposed Cimatus proposal saying armed forest guards can be transformed into paramilitary groups to harass and repress local communities. Kalikasan Peoples 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.
As opposed to Kalikasan-Peoples Network for the Environments misgivings on arming forest protection officers Cimatu vowed that he would not let his people be used by corporations and. These specialized units are staffed by Troopers Special Agents and Texas Rangers. They managed to save more rhinos the following year.
The most recent victim was. In Thoothukudi India 13 people were killed while protesting against a copper smelting plant. When forest rangers locked up Shikharam in June 2006 park authorities were scrambling to curb the poaching that spiked alongside social unrest during the countrys Maoist insurgency.
The most widely reported was the death of forest ranger Bienvinido Veguilla Jr a forest ranger hacked to death in Palawan province by alleged illegal loggers in July. But the Kalikasan- Philippine Network for the Environment Kalikasan- PNE opposed Cimatus proposal saying armed forest guards can be transformed into paramilitary groups to harass and repress local communities. Now we will empower them by means of arming them Kalikasan claimed that many of the killings they recorded happened in areas subjected to heavy militarization.
Those who are killed are our foresters or forest rangers in the field Antiporda said. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only triggered the wave of repression and. Veguilla is the 18th environmental defender killed in Palawan since 2001 according to data from the Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment Kalikasan PNE an NGO that has been.
At least 32 environmental law enforcers were attacked from 2001 to 2021 according to tracking by civil society group Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment Kalikasan PNE and the DENR. We demand justice and peace for activists of all causes and call for urgent and effective protection mechanisms and an enabling environment for those who are peacefully defending people and the planet Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment Kalikasan PNE national coordinator Leon Dulce said the country is in need of a new leadership which can. KALIKASAN Peoples network for the Environment has documented 260 cases of human rights abuse committed against environmental defenders including two killings 173 arrests and detentions and 25 physical assaults as of July 2020.
But Clemente Bautista national coordinator of Kalikasan-Peoples Network for the Environment said arming forest rangers will not solve the issue of environmental protection as their number is. Leon Dulce of the Kalikasan Peoples. The DENR chief had been pushing for arming personnel since Arzagas death in 2017a move opposed by Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment which has warned that armed forest guards can be transformed into paramilitary groups that may end up harassing and repressing local communities.
To respond to the threats Kalikasan led the formation of an Environmental Defenders Congress to strengthen community care for people who work for the care of the environment. Coordinate with the DENR and the Armed Forces of the Philippines to extend manpower which would help forest rangers in their duty. Only eight rangers protect 21000 hectares of forests that serve as the watershed for.
Manila Police District personnel disperse members of the Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment Kalikasan PNE during a protest in Mendiola Manila on July 22 2021.
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