MANILA, Philippines --- Environmental activists are cool to the idea of arming forest rangers of government, saying it would only do more harm than good. Leon Dulce of the Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) said Tuesday that what should be focused on is getting to the root cause of attacks against government forest rangers and not creating another one by giving them arms. "Arming environment defenders is not the solution.Rather, it would only complicate the complex situation they are facing.Communities are already subjected to attacks and then you would add even more weapons?" Dulce pointed out during the launch of a report on the state of environmen...
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