🍃 A Thread of Rodrigo Duterte's Environmental Killings 🍃

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The construction of Kaliwa Dam

"At least 126 species, including the critically endangered Philippine Eagle, will lose their natural habitat, while 300 hectares of forested area in the Sierra Madre will be permanently flooded." https://haribon.org.ph/stop-kaliwa-dam/
"The target construction site would fall within an ancestral domain, where at least 5,000 Dumagat-Remontados are situated... Moreover, around 100,000 individual lives will be put at risk with increased chances of heavy flooding in downstream areas."
"On December 2, 2019, at least 500 families from the Aeta tribe in Aranguren village in Capas town were given a seven-day notice to evacuate from their lands to make way for the construction of the access road from NCC to Clark International Airport." https://thediplomat.com/2020/01/philippines-smart-city-threatens-tribal-displacement/
"Months after, the spring dried out the irrigation and the mineral wastes dumped from the mine tailings have caused the palay (unhusked rice) and sweet potatoes to be infected by tungro virus or become stunted." https://www.bulatlat.com/2019/08/24/oceanagolds-wealth-is-misery-for-kasibus-farmers/
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