Philippines

The Vanishing Batak Tribe

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 20:01
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The end of the Batak had come and gone. Their culture was already gone. The language was all that remained. Do you doom yourself and your children to lives of abject poverty, ridden with disease and living with hunger on a daily basis just to preserve a language?

Aeta: From ‘lubay’ to Levi’s - 15 years after Mt. Pinatubo eruption

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:21
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BOTOLAN, Zambales -- The world’s worst eruptions in the second half of the 20th century failed to erase the Aeta tribe from the face of the earth.

Fifteen years after Mount Pinatubo let out its biggest blasts in their ancestral abode on June 15, 1991, the Aeta population in the provinces of Zambales, Pampanga and Tarlac has almost doubled from just over 50,000 at the height of the disaster, data from the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Central Luzon showed.

KIMANGKIL-KALANAWAN BRIEF ACTION PLAN:

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 12:33
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Kimangkil-Kalanawan Mountains, we estimated 70 to 80 thousand hectares of Higaonon rainforest tribal lands situated within the boundaries of Misamis Oriental-Bukidnon-Agusan provinces in north-central Mindanao region. Major river-system such as; Pulangi, Agusan, Gingoog, Odiongan, Cabulig and Tagoloan emanates from its rainforest.

The World Was Clean Before We Came...

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 12:16
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The world was clean before we came...
but we did not have even the slightest
sense of decency to think that it is
not a big garbage can or trash mound;...
The world was clean before we came...
with the waters in the rivers and the
oceans clearly reflecting the clouds
and the skies. But we were too complacent
in our attitudes that we dumped every
kind of trash we could not stand the
sight of, much even the smell of;

The world was clean before we came...
with the clean air we breath giving
life to all its inhabitants , until
development as it is called, fouled it

Tribal Peoples Forgotten

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 12:10
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The continuing destruction of the earth goes on unabated and any sign of it ever coming to an end has become a remote possibility, because there still remains places yet to be reached by the destructive ways of the so-called modern civilised man, to put into ruins.

Stop Mission Schools for Tribals in South Palawan!

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 12:09
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Will Christian arrogancy and aggression never end? Why evict tribal people from their forest homelands and force them into mission schools? Life in the forest was perfectly adapted to the natural environment over thousands of generations, and this harmony between man and nature is now being destroyed for progress and development. But progress and development for what? Tribal people, once culturally uprooted by civilization, become the underdogs within the civilized society after a short while. This is the result of a UN recent study.