Philippines: Baggao Agtas Reject Mining Explorations

Philippines: Baggao Agtas Reject Mining Explorations Thelma C. Bicarme, 2011   The Agta tribe in Baggao, Cagayan have turned down the request of a mining company to conduct mining exploration in their ancestral domain at Sitio Linawan, Brgy. Sta. Margarita of the said town.   According to the official statement of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) region 2 in its radio program at the Radyo ng Bayan, the Agtas headed by Governor Ikong Molina, came up with their decision...

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