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remain among the poorest 40 percent of Filipinos, according to the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center .
In its 2022 State of the Indigenous Peoples Address Report, LRC said that half of all Certificate of Ancestral Domain titles in the Philippines are embroiled in environmentally destructive projects. The threats were found to cover at least 1.25 million hectares or equivalent to 21 percent of the total area of all CADTs“We found that half of all approved large-scale mining contracts and a whopping 87 percent of all large-scale logging projects are within or close to registered ancestral domains.
The report highlighted the ongoing struggles of IP communities against extractive projects, such as the water woes experienced by the Tuwali people during the operations of the OceanaGold copper-gold project in Barangay Didipio, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya. Protesting the depletion and pollution of water and its impacts on their farmlands, they have been repeatedly met with a history of violence and human-rights violations.
The LRC report, which was launched in time for the opening of the UN COP27 climate negotiations, highlights the need for both local and world leaders to support indigenous actions to address the climate crisis.
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