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Who is ‘Indigenous’ to the Philippines?

What do we mean when we say “indigenous”? In biology, a plant or animal is indigenous to a place if it has adapted so well to the environment after millions of years of evolution. In social science, ...
The report "No Data, No Story: Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines" provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the Philippines, focusing on the ...
Around 3.6 million households in the Philippines are not connected to the national power grid. In the country’s mountainous north, some villages have overcome this challenge by building and ...
From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...
On April 18, Indigenous Aeta protesters blockaded the trail to the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo, a popular tourist attraction in an area recognized as Aeta ancestral land. Aeta leaders say their ...
SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — It’s been three years since production began at a coal mine in the mountain village of Ned, some 1,500 kilometers, nearly 1,000 miles, south of Manila, on the southern ...
Drawing from discussions at the ‘Creative Pathways to Sustainability: Launch and Roundtable on the Green Guide for the Philippines’, arts journalist Denzel Yorong reflects on the ethical stakes of ...
The main objective of the World Bank’s Indigenous Peoples Engagement Strategy is to enhance the visibility of IPs in the Philippines and increase awareness of the need to address their development ...