Who is standing up to environmental plunder, land grabbing, and crony capitalism? On a southern Philippines island, indigenous people, migrant settlers, and NGOs have combined forces to resist the extractivist activities of commercial interests and political elites. Many environmental defenders, reports Wolfram Dressler [1], have been murdered by illegal operatives and hired hitmen.

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Wolfram Dressler, Old Thoughts in New Ideas: State Conservation Measures, Development and Livelihood on Palawan Island [3] Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011

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[1] http://www.wolframdressler.com/about-me

[2] https://criticalasianstudies.org/about

[3] https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/old-thoughts-in-new-ideas-state-conservation-measures-development-and-livelihood-on-palawan-island/

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