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Nov 3 5 tweets 3 min read
ICYMI: President @bongbongmarcos on Monday blamed the devastation caused by #PaengPH on deforestation.

But did you know: Under his father and namesake Marcos Sr.’s martial law rule, relatives and cronies were rewarded with Timber License Agreements? 🧵
Timber licensees soared during the Marcos years, from 58 in 1969 to 471 in 1976. The Philippines recorded one of the worst deforestation rates in Asia-Pacific during those years, losing 316,000 hectares of forest annually on average.

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The Philippines’ forest cover is now only about 7M hectares, or 23% of the country’s total land area, based on official numbers. But experts are afraid that this number is overestimated.

During the early years of the Spanish colonial period, forest cover was over 90%.
Data from the @globalforests also showed that the Philippines lost 20 basketball courts of forests every hour in 2020. This adds up to an area almost the size of Iloilo City.

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The Mimaropa region – covering Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan – has seen the worst deforestation in recent years.

We mapped forest cover losses and gains by province from 2003 to 2015. Find out how your province fares:

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Filipino workers in a US military base in Diego Garcia, an island south of Maldives in the Indian Ocean, are bearing the brunt of a minimum wage dispute between the Philippine government and their employer.

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Workers said they feared losing their jobs if they head home before the wage dispute is resolved.

The @DMWPHL also accused Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (KBR), one of the largest US defense contractors, of “emotional blackmail.”
The DMW said KBR prevents its workers from going home to their families “unless they sign an extension of their contract based on the old minimum wage rate.”

KBR is the only contractor employing OFWs in Diego Garcia that didn’t comply with the adjusted rates.
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