Rare spring falls in Cotabato declared a tourism site

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Unlike most other waterfalls, not a river or any body of water exists above it. The water simply gushes out from rock formations in a cliff at the edge of a hill. A great portion of the cliff is covered with grasses resembling large green curtains.

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War, agrarian projects force lumads to struggle for ancestral land

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today Indigenous tribes were displaced from their community in the government’s counter-insurgency programs that unleashed paramilitary groups in the hinterlands. When they returned to their lands, they found that settlers have applied their ancestral land for agrarian reform program and forestry projects.

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