Challenges faced by the Philippines. Despite the progress made by the Philippines in its battle against deforestation, many challenges remain. One of the biggest challenges is illegal logging, which is a major problem in the country. Illegal logging contributes to deforestation and leads to the loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, and water ...
The creation of a well-trained, mining-focused task force serves to enforce the ban on illegal mining, and protect license-holders whose mining areas are subject to these intrusions. 4) Monitor ...
Mining activities in the southern Palawan municipality threaten the livelihood of communities dependent on agriculture, fisheries and forests, and affect the access of residents to clean water ...
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, a third of the country's total land area of 30 million hectares contained high deposits of gold, nickel, copper, and chromite, among others. As of February 2022, there were …
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Gina Lopez, who served as the Philippines' environment chief, talks about her embattled, short-lived tenure and explains why it's so difficult to rein in the country's powerful and …
A planned $5.9 billion copper and gold mine in the southern Philippines has faced opposition since reserves were first confirmed in the 1990s, with more than two dozen people killed since then in ...
The Department of Energy and Natural Resources (DENR) has completed a review of 26 Philippines mining companies that found 13 were of an unacceptable standard and would have to be closed or suspended. Begun in February 2017 and written by the country's Mining Industry Coordinating Council, the report ranks the performance of companies in ...
A small seaside town located in a distant eastern province of the Philippines is home to a highly profitable and lucrative 700 million dollar a year industry: illegal gold mining. Paracale is 400 kilometres away from the capital Manila and has …
The mining sector in the Philippines has had a lethal impact on people and the environment. Will an international transparency process help end it?
President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. on Tuesday underscored the need for small-scale mining firms operating outside the bounds of law to start following relevant regulations for the sake of their workers.
President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted a ban on issuing licenses for new mining operations in the Philippines, marking an about-face from a previous anti-mining stance that saw him ban open-pit mining in 2017 and …
MINDANAO, Philippines — Mount Apo, a protected area on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, is threatened by small-scale illegal mining, which remains a lingering problem elsewhere in the resource-rich Southeast Asian nation.
She cracked down on illegal fishing, campaigned for renewable energy, and, most notably, banned open-pit mines and threatened to shut down more than half the country's mining operations, saying their environmental destruction was wrecking the lives of farmers and fishermen in remote rural communities. ... How an Activist Minister in ...
Environmental and human rights defenders fear the worst, as the Philippines lifted the ban on open-pit mining that intended to protect the country's unique biodiversity and to …
On Dec. 23, Philippine Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu issued an order overturning a 2017 ban on open-pit mining. This follows an April 2021 decision by President Rodrigo Duterte to lift a 2012 ...
This Act shall be known as the "Philippine Mining Act of 1995." Section 2 ... The absence of a permit shall be considered as prima facie evidence of illegal mining and shall be sufficient cause for the Government to confiscate the ores or minerals being transported, the tools and equipment utilized, and the vehicle containing the same. ...
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines – Illegal mining activities in South Cotabato have resurged despite recent efforts to crack down on them, with illegal mine operators becoming better equipped and ...
International Recognition. In 2019, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted the Resolution 2019/23 titled Combating transnational organized crime and its links to illicit trafficking in precious metals and illegal mining, including by enhancing the security of supply chains of precious metals on the recommendation of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal …
There are a variety advantages and dangers of mining in the Philippines that has special aspects and makes use of which can profits the neighborhood in the society. In conclusion, mining ought to be furnish up so that the destruction of the surroundings will be limit and the lives of the subsequent technological information will be saved, extra ...
Environment official identifies the rural villages of Tumpagon, Pigsag-an, and Tuburan in Cagayan de Oro as entry points of Iponan River's illegal miners and their equipment
In its 2019 State of the Environment report, the Philippines' Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) stated that non-metallic mineral reserves, which include black sand, comprised about 99% of the...
PALAWAN, Philippines — In a move celebrated as a victory by an Indigenous community that since 2005 has been fighting plans to mine nickel in a protected area, the Philippine Supreme Court ...
some of the mining companies are based in the UK and increasingly money raised in the City of London is being used to fund disastrous projects. World Bank support for an expansion of destructive mining in the Philippines is also a matter of great concern and given the substantial provision of funding to the World Bank by UK taxpayers, a matter
The Philippines remains a significant contributor to nickel markets, producing an estimated 360,000 metric tons of contained nickel in 2022, equivalent to 11% of the global production, placing the country in a far second spot next to Indonesia.
Residents and indigenous tribes are vehemently opposed to mining activities in Brooke's Point since the mining companies' proposed area crosses their traditional land and a protected area. They claim that the mining of nickel ore has an impact on their livelihood and way of …
Since November 2020, indigenous people have observed trees that have been illegally felled within a mining concession in southern Palawan
The DENR reported that it issued 4,526 mining permits and contracts and contributed P407.6 million to Covid-19 response in 2021. It also closed 144 illegal mining …
Pro-mining groups are hoping the lifting of the ban will advance the controversial Tampakan project, touted as the largest undeveloped copper-gold site in Southeast Asia and among the largest in the world, although a provincial ban is still preventing the project that would displace at least 4,000 Indigenous Blaan tribespeople and clear around 3,935 ha of natural …
ing mines in the Philippines and, although illegal mining extends the actual number significantly beyond this, the Philippine mining sector is startlingly small. In 2011 the gross production value for metallic min-erals was PhP122.58 billion ($3 billion),
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff) For more than a century, the Kankanaey and Ibaloy Peoples of Itogon, Benguet province in the Cordillera region of Northern Luzon in the Philippines have been waging a struggle against the injustices of large-scale corporate mining. As they continue to fight to reclaim their land, lifeways, and resources, they …
MANILA, Philippines — Authorities arrested last May 13 a total of 18 suspects — five of them Chinese — and seized several pieces of heavy equipment in a raid on illegal mining operations on ...
The government of the Philippines is counting on the role mining can play as a source of economic development, but it must be acknowledged that mining is also an activity presenting a plethora of environmental, social and economic problems. As Pring et al. (1999, 45) acknowledged, "Few, if any, forms of economic development present the array ...
