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‘The world is counting on indigenous knowledge and practices to save Mother Earth’- Cong. Mangaoang

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Baguio City, Philippines – Chairman of the Philippine House Committee on Indigenous Cultural Communities and Indigenous Peoples and Representative of the Lone District of Kalinga Allen Jesse C. Mangaoang stressed the important contribution of indigenous knowledge in saving the environment which he described as ‘not only threatened but also in bad shape.’


Mangaoang affirmed that IPs have an essential role to play in sustainable development since the indigenous knowledge that has been mastered in the natural world and its processes being custodians of a large part of the world’s biodiversity is a best practice.

The solon underscored these when he delivered his message at RDC Hall, Leonard Wood, Baguio City on September 29, 2021, in celebration of the Indigenous Peoples Month this October and the 24th Indigenous People's Rights Act (IPRA) Commemoration.


With the sense of sustainability, he said, IPs have the right to tell the world that “the way we work, the way we cultivate, and the way we live should be respected as our traditions and our outlook stretch the deep connection between human societies and the natural world.”


According to Mangaoang, traditions offer the world techniques, evolve centuries that work with ecosystems and not against them, and that sustainable development is social and cultural, as well as economic and environmental.

“If we persist, in telling the world and all government that our sustainable indigenous environmental practices, our culture and agriculture and other indigenous practices on resource management be recognized then and only then this world will breathe a sigh of relief and become a better home again to dwell,” the solon underscored.


He appealed to government leaders to listen with the indigenous knowledge to elevate everyone’s awareness of the unsustainable practices that ultimately threaten everyone’s survival.


“It is in the sustained practice, advocacy, and transfer of knowledge and technology that we will be able to contribute bigger on the desperate call to make the environment thriving again,” Mangaoang reiterated.


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