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Apo Island / ˈæpoʊ / is a volcanic island covering 74 hectares in land area, 7 kilometers off the southeastern tip of Negros Island and 30 kilometers south of the Negros Oriental capital of Dumaguete in the Philippines. The name "Apo" means "elder" or "respected ancestor" in the Visayan languages . The marine habitat around the island is a ...
The Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne ( / ˌækwəˈsæsneɪ / AK-wə-SAS-neh; [5] French: Nation Mohawk à Akwesasne; Mohawk: Ahkwesáhsne) is a Mohawk Nation ( Kanienʼkehá:ka) territory that straddles the intersection of international ( United States and Canada) borders and provincial ( Ontario and Quebec) boundaries on both banks of the St ...
Canada. Budget. $8,432 [1] You Are on Indian Land is a 1969 documentary film directed by Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell about the 1969 Akwesasne border crossing dispute and the confrontation between police and Mohawk of the St. Regis Reservation on a bridge between Canada and the United States, which stands on Mohawk land near Cornwall, Ontario .
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On July 5, 1995, an interim Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) was organized and on April 23, 2000, President Joseph Estrada signed Proclamation No. 284 declaring the Bessang Pass National Shrine as Protected Areas (included to NIPAS Act of 1992 or RA 7560) under Natural Monument/Landmark Category.
Parañaque Mayor Eric Olivarez and Cynthia Villar with environmental lawyer Atty. Antonio Oposa and Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) Members, inauguarated The Wetland Center Museum at the Las Piñas-Parañaque Wetland Park was inaugurated on February 2, 2024 to mark World Wetlands Day. See also. List of islands in the Greater Manila Area
The Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment (ATFE) is a community-based grassroots activist organization developed to address issues of environmental justice and contamination within the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne. The mission of the ATFE is to preserve the Mohawk community's spiritual, cultural and biological integrity through activism ...
The chief of the Akwesasne Mohawk police noted that drug smuggling was a problem that extended along the Canada–US border and was not limited to Akwesasne. In March 2006, the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation was awarded a $263,000 grant from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Legal Services, in order to "fight drug use, violent crime, and ...