Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
WHEN I hike to the hills and mountains of Zambales with the Aeta Indigenous farmers, their children and families, I am usually on a trek with the Preda fair trade team to plant grafted mango saplings, calamansi or rambutan trees. This is on the mountains where the mangoes are certified organic according to European Union standards. This is a great achievement for the Indigenous people.
The Aeta people claim the mountains as their ancestral lands, but around the world the rights of the Indigenous peoples to their ancestral lands are challenged by mining companies and landgrabbers supported by corrupt politicians and officials.
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