Filipino / Philippine civil society organizations, fisherfolk and individuals who stood up for the Sulu Sea
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Friday 09 May 2008
Reasons for this nomination
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.