Cease order issued vs ABS-CBN Bantay Kalikasan
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The National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) has ordered an environment advocate group to stop making further improvement on the worship place which it earlier intruded and converted into a resort early this year in Palawan. In a letter to the ABS-CBN Foundation Inc.-Bantay Kalikasan, the NCIP asked the NGO headed by Gina Lopez “to temporarily cease from further improving the subject area.” The letter dated Apiril 11, 2012 addressed to James Adrian Bicaldo, officer-in-charge of the Bantay Kalikasan in Palawan, said the NGO should secure first the certificate of pre-condition (CP) from the NCIP and the free and prior informed consent (FPIC) from the ancestral domain owners. NCIP field officer Ricardo Sanga who issued the cease and decease order was acting on complaints of IP leaders on the illegal entry of the Bantay Kalikasan into the Sabsaban Falls in Sitio Sabsaban, Barangay Aribungos on March 25, 2012..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20120516met7.html
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