An investigating team created by the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) has recommended that criminal and administrative charges be filed against a local environment official for allowing the cutting of 45 trees for a resort being built by a foundation run by one of the country’s biggest TV networks.
The Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) is seeking the temporary closure of an “eco-tourism resort” of the ABS-CBN Foundation in the province for its alleged failure to secure the necessary permit for the project.
An irate Gina Lopez, managing director of ABS-CBN Foundation Inc., on Thursday dismissed as a “nuisance suit” the case filed by an indigenous tribe questioning her environmentalist group’s move to cut 25 trees and establish a tourism resort in a sacred forest ground in Palawan province, allegedly without a government permit.
A dedicated environmentalist and scion of the politically influential Lopez family is under fire for her alleged plans to put up a tourism resort in the middle of sacred tribal ground in Palawan province.
The century-old Paco public market, once a cultural landmark in Manila and now a major source of pollution in the Pasig River, will undergo a makeover in the next 10 years under an agreement between the city government and ABS-CBN Foundation headed by green advocate Gina Lopez.
