Huge Crowd Rally Behind Environmental Code That Will Ban Open Pit Mining On Indigenous Lands In ...

Huge Crowd Rally Behind Environmental Code That Will Ban Open Pit Mining On Indigenous Lands In South Cotabato   More than 12,000 parishioners and various groups including students, irrigation and farmers associations, indigenous peoples, and civil society organizations gathered here to rally behind the passage of an environment code that would finally ban open pit mining method elsewhere in the province of South Cotabato.   Rally organizers, lead by the Catholic Bishop Dinualdo D. Gutierrez,...

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