Bantay Kalikasan defies NCIP order, solicits ante-dated signatures
06/12/2012Palawan tribal leaders have called on Bantay Kalikasan, a self-proclaimed champion of environmental protection in the province, to honor the cease order issued by the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) against further developing the area it earlier illegally occupied.
This developed as NCIP field officer Ricardo Sanga who issued the cease order said Bantay Kalikasan has been soliciting signatures using ante-dated forms from tribal communities in an effort to moot the halt directive.
The ante-dated signature forms purport that the indigenous people were the ones who requested the group to occupy the area and convert it into a resort to justify the intrusion and occupation of the Sabsaban Falls in Barangay Aribungos, Brooke’s Point, Sanga said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120612nat3.html
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