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<div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="3007503"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">An investigative journalist sheds light on claims that the family of Environment Secretary Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga is accused of land grabbing 40,000 hectares of forests and ancestral domains in Palawan, which is 10 times the size of the city of Manila.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Speaking to TeleRadyo Serbisyo, Philippine Star columnist Jarius Bondoc said the land grab claim is rooted in <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Presidential Proclamation No. 1387 of</span> 1975 issued by President Ferdinand Marcos Sr declaring 40,000 hectares of pasture land in Coron and Busuanga towns as part of the Busuanga Pasture Reserve. </span></div><style type="text/css" id="isPasted">
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</style><p>Two more laws: the 1992 National Integrated Protected Areas System Act and the 2018 Expanded NIPAS Act both cover Proclamation 1387 and reiterate that the area is public domain. </p><p>&quot;Hindi pwedeng ibenta o i-settle ng sinuman, hindi pwedeng magkaroon ng bahay, pananim, komersyo o negosyo o kahit anong industriya. Hindi pwedeng pasukin kasi parang gubat &#x27;yan,&quot; Bondoc said. </p><div><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">However, he said the Yulo King Ranch entered the reserve in 1976, which became the subject of a court case filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Government in 1986. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">The problem, he said, is that the court case remains pending before the Sandiganbayan despite the YKR side failing to lift the government sequestration order.</span></div><style type="text/css" id="isPasted">
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</style><p>The court has appointed Yulo-Loyzaga as family estate executor.</p><p>The environment secretary has already refuted the allegations, saying the Yulo family “has never owned this land and has no interest in owning it. Neither are we party to the negotiations being undertaken by the Department of Agrarian Reform.”</p><p>She said the allegations started after she started implementing reforms as environment chief.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x5LV0KERez4?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>An investigative journalist sheds light on claims that the family of Environment Secretary Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga is accused of land grabbing 40,000 hectares of forests and ancestral domains in Palawan, which is 10 times the size of the city of Manila.</p>

An investigative journalist sheds light on claims that the family of Environment Secretary Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga is accused of land grabbing 40,000 hectares of forests and ancestral domains in Palawan, which is 10 times the size of the city of Manila.