Mt. Malidang is home to Zamboanga Peninsula’s last remaining frontier, the Mt. Malindang Range Natural Park. For years, thousands of Subanen cultural minority members have lived peacefully inside the park maintaining a health balance of biodiversity in the area.
But everything, both the protected wildlife environment and the Subanen people, will soon be displaced when the City Government of Oroquieta pushes through its planned multi-billion trans-axial highway across the natural park.
More than 12,000 community members of the Subanen tribe mostly women and children are facing threat of displacement. We cannot let development aggression undermine women’s human rights. We cannot let blood spill in our lands in the name of local development. We cannot let our last remaining forests be destroyed because of projects which will only be a major source of corruption.
Save our forests. Save our women and children.
How to help:
Spread the word to your friends. Send a petition addressed to the government officials of Oroquieta City and Misamis Occidental. Volunteer to organize communities. Together we can advance our rights s women and cultural minorities.