Philippines - Concern that the spraying of pesticides on banana plantations in the Philippines is indiscriminately harming people, livestock and other crops has prompted Church leaders to call for a permanent ban on the practice. Urging President Arroyo to exercise a sense of motherly care for the future generations, the Philippines Catholic Church stated, "We are one with all affected people of Mindanao in working for deliverance from this immoral practice of aerial spraying that infringes upon human health and dignity."
Cardinal Rosales and other bishops have also voiced opposition to the Laiban Dam project which would stand on a seismic fault line and submerge almost 70,000 acres of valuable forest.
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