Kalikasan People's Network

KALIKASAN-People's Network for the Environment is a network of people's organizations (POs), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and environmental advocates. It aims to address environmental issues but in such a way that primacy is given to the people-especially in the grassroots level-who constitute the overwhelming majority of the population. All environmental causes shall thus have the people's interest at their core. "Kalikasan" is the Filipino term for nature. KALIKASAN PNE was established to enable greater coordination and complementation in addressing the environmental issues which continue to worsen the lives of already marginalized people. So-called "development schemes," in particular, have caused great environmental harm with correspondingly great human costs. Its National Convenors-composed of sectoral representatives from organizations of peasants, fisherfolk, workers, women, indigenous peoples. urban poor, and concerned individuals-launched KALIKASAN-People's Network for the Environment on November 25, 1997.