Viral Mount Pinatubo standoff spotlights decades of Indigenous exclusion in the Philippines

Published on May 16, 2025

On April 18, Indigenous Aeta protesters blockaded the trail to the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo, a popular tourist attraction in an area recognised as Aeta ancestral land.

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