New Enviros – A Voice for the Voiceless

Environment activist Fr. Edu Gariguez (R) of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) stands alongside the Tadyawan Mangyan Indigenous People’s group in the hinterlands of Victoria town in Mindoro Oriental as part of his campaign to oppose the incursion of transnational mining companies to the ancestral lands of the indigenous peoples and in critical ecosystems. Large-scale mining, specifically the proposed Mindoro Nickel Project of Intex Resources, threatens the very survival of the indigenous peoples because a big part of the mining tenement overlaps with the ancestral domains of Alangan and Tadyawan tribes. Mining within the ancestral domain constitutes an outright land-grabbing of the transnational corporations under the guise of bringing in the so-called development. For them land is life, and mining in watershed and in the ancestral lands, will destroy life!