on Bugsuk Island, told a recent United Nations consultation on indigenous people that security personnel of Jewelmer International Corporation´s pearl farm have prohibited his community from fishing ...

Palawan’s tourism boom has bumped up against indigenous cultures. Art and culture groups rally to preserve traditions as developers pour $895 million into paradise. ByR. Daniel Foster ...

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Private island resort Lagen Island is all set to reopen later this year following an extensive renovation. Located in El Nido, Palawan, in the Philippines, Lagen Island is surrounded by tropical ...

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Since September, indigenous people from southern Palawan have been in ... acquired properties in Bugsuk and Pandanan were “voluntarily relocated to other islands by the military,” wrote ...

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, PALAWAN, Philippines — The Catholic Church leaders in Palawan issued a joint pastoral letter read during Sunday’s Masses in all parishes on the island calling for a 25 ...

Palawan’s group of islands is touted as the Philippines’ “last frontier ... Risa Hontiveros and members of Task Force Bugsuk who were trying to cross the Pandanan Channel were blocked by the ...

The Palawan-based group asserted that many indigenous ... removed from their ancestral territories in Bugsuk and Pandanan Islands. Today, corporations like [Jewelmer] continue to control and ...

This is the latest development in a 50-year land struggle between the Philippine government and families and indigenous peoples in the southernmost tip of Palawan which started during Martial Law.

Pandanan, and other islands in Palawan. An affiliate company called Jewelmer Corp. established pearl farms and closed off two islands, making it difficult or altogether preventing the fisherfolk from ...