GLSM – Minors Oposa v. Factoran and Metro Manila Dev. Auth. v. Concerned Residents of Manila Bay
Protecting Old Growth Forests and Marine Ecosystems. Tony Oposa shares his motivations for, strategies, and ultimate impacts of two landmark decisions, one on behalf of 43 minors to cancel timber licenses to save old growth forests in the Philippines, and the other to clean up Manila Bay, the center of the center of one of the world’s most biologically important ecosystems. By Tony Oposa