Filipino / Philippine civil society organizations, fisherfolk and individuals who stood up for the Sulu Sea

For petitioning the Philippine government agencies to stop Ocean Nourishment Corp.’s (ONC) urea-dumping activities in the Sulu Sea. (ONC is an Australian-based company.) The petition’s signatories demanded broad consultations and comprehensive environmental and socio-economic impact assessments of ONC’s plan to artificially promote growth of algal blooms. The company claimed the experiments would sequester carbon.