The world currently faces an urgent biodiversity crisis. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services stated in a 2019 report that up to one million plant and animal species globally face extinction within decades because of human activities.
Mainstream protection of the environment and defending environmental defenders Today, the 7th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is being held online due to the corona virus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This year’s theme is “Accelerating action for and delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific.” However, five years after […]
While Metro Manila is still under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) due to COVID-19, false accusations are being spread against civil society organizations (CSOs) and activists including environmental defenders.
Environmental groups stand with media workers, press freedom advocates, and other democracy-loving citizens against the shutdown of the ABS CBN news network. This is a direct attack against free expression and press freedom in a time when millions are in need of timely and crucial information and checks and balances of government during the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis we are facing.
