Martial law in Mindanao takes deadly toll on land, environmental defenders

Mongabay
Oct 1, 2019, 8:17 am182 pts
MINDANAO, Philippines — In September 2006, Victor Danyan looked out over the corporate coffee plantation that had taken over his tribe’s land in the village of Ned, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Danyan, the datu, or chief of his community, told me the tribe’s members weren’t afraid to…

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