Are environmental activists targeted for killing?
By Voltaire Tupaz, RAPPLER.com
November 1, 2012

MANILA, Philippines – Another anti-mining and anti-logging activist was ambushed together with his wife, an environmental group reported.

Dr Isidro Olan, executive director of the environmental group Lovers of Nature Foundation Inc, was shot by unidentified assailants at about 3:30 pm, October 29, in Bgy Puyat, Carmen, Surigao del Sur, CARAGA Watch said in a statement.

The 69-year-old Olan and his wife were on their way home when they were attacked. Only Olan was wounded but survived the alleged assassination attempt. He is now recuperating at the Madrid Municipal Hospital in Surigao del Sur.

“Dr Olan is one of the most vocal and known anti-logging and anti-mining activists in the Carrascal, Cantilan, Madrid, Carmen and Lanuza (CarCanMadCarLan) area of Surigao del Sur,” according to the Mindanao-based environmental coalition.

“The shooting of Dr Olan is but one of the countless attempts to silence the growing clamor of the people of Caraga to put a stop to the increasing number of destructive large scale operations of mining, logging and plantations in the region,” CARAGA Watch spokesperson Fr Raymond Ambray said.

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