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Philippines biodiversity hotspot pushes back on mining

A nickel stockpile towers over farmer Moharen Tambiling's rice paddy in the Philippines' Palawan, evidence of a mining boom that locals hope a new moratorium will tame.
"If mining operations here do not stop, the soil quality here will deteriorate, until the land's already unusable and crops can no longer grow," Tambiling tells Agence France-Presse.
Despite promised jobs and tax revenue, there is growing pushback against the sector in Palawan. The island's governing council in March unanimously passed a 50-year moratorium on any new mining permits.

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Transcript
00:00I can see if you can see that there are some sticks
00:04or sticks
00:06This is the ore that is really
00:08This is what they have brought to other countries
00:19This is the latte rat
00:21This is the hollow
00:22Because the babies
00:24They are also good for the babies
00:26This is what they have
00:30What happens when the latte rat?
00:32They are still reused
00:38For the time, the latte rat
00:40When the latte rat is still
00:42The latte rat
00:44The latte rat
00:46They are not reused
00:48They are really hot
00:50The latte rat
00:52The water that is really slow
00:54But now not
00:56Here is the whole
00:58and we are very good at the fish we have to have the fish.
01:02We have a food that we have to survive,
01:05because the fish is really in the sea.
01:07Why are we here at the fish?
01:09Because they are in the sea.
01:10They are in the sea.
01:13They are in the sea.
01:16They are in the sea, and they are in the sea.
01:20It's really the fish.
01:23Then the fish is out there.
01:25so I'm really scared
01:27for a few minutes
01:29and I feel like
01:31it's a little bit
01:33and the water
01:39So our MPSA
01:41our mining consumption
01:43covers around
01:454,532 hectares
01:47this one-fifth year
01:49this
01:51...
01:55...
01:57...
01:59...
02:01...
02:03...
02:07Today
02:09Bataraza
02:11is a first class municipality
02:13the Barangay Rio Tuba
02:15is the richest in the whole of
02:17Region 4B
02:19So
02:21from that perspective
02:23you can see the effect of 50 years of mining
02:25You have an airport
02:27You have a port
02:29You have a community here
02:31You have a hospital
02:32So you have infrastructure which
02:34many other communities don't have
02:36The moratorium
02:37when we argued before
02:38the provincial board
02:39we were saying that
02:40if we have a moratorium
02:42on endorsement
02:43the 67
02:45pending
02:46and new mining applications
02:48which will cover
02:49240,000
02:51plus
02:52hectares of forest
02:54will be stopped
02:56Okay?
02:57You're protecting
02:58240,000 hectares of forest
03:00You give value to those forests
03:02So that's the future
03:04and that's the important
03:06role
03:07or impact
03:08of the moratorium
03:10ordinance
03:11I think the challenge to the government
03:13is to
03:14value nature
03:16You know
03:17you give an appropriate value
03:19to the natural resources
03:20because
03:21it's not just simply trees here
03:22John
03:23Cecil
03:24You're talking here of wildlife
03:26Palawan
03:27is very rich
03:28in terms of enemies
03:29in terms of enemies
03:30So
03:31you're talking about
03:32the
03:34shops
03:35of
03:36in
03:37the
03:38town
03:39the
03:40town
03:40of
03:41town
03:42the
03:43people
03:45the
03:46people
03:47who
03:48are
03:49people
03:50who
03:50even
03:51are
03:52they
03:53are
03:55people
03:56you
03:57have
03:58You

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