Philippines: Amid South China Sea Dispute, Palawan Besieged By Political Divide – Analysis

* *By Criselda Yabes and Leilani Chavez*

Palawan is an outlier in the Philippine archipelago, its topography and habitat closer to that of Borneo than the rest of the country’s major islands. This so-called last ecological frontier is under siege on two fronts: internally, politicians want the island carved up into smaller...