As we continue to create and imagine solutions to the ongoing #ClimateCrisis, we must ensure that extractive #industry isn’t allowed to continue harming #Indigenous and #FrontlineCommunities in that process. Native territories have always been seen by #colonists and #capitalists as expendable virgin lands, there for the taking and exploiting. But recognize that the remaining undisrupted, undisturbed #ecosystems

https://www.ran.org/the-understory/indigenous-land-stewardship-keeps-forests-standing/#:~:text=Despite%20only%20stewarding%2022%20percent,the%20world's%20remaining%20intact%20forests.

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But make no mistake: #Filipino advocates are fighting back hard against these projects. A growing #movement of #FrontlineCommunities, churches, civil society organizations, fisherfolk, and community groups are #resisting the build-out and calling out the #companies for what they're doing: #exploiting the region, #displacing people, #threatening livelihoods, destroying precious #ecosystems,

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