Members of Manobo Pulangiyon linked arms during a press conference in Quezon city as they denounced being denied of access to their 1,000- hectare ancestral land that was leased out since 1986 to the Klating Development Corp., formerly Cesar Fortich Inc. via the award of Forestry Land Graze Management Agreement (FLGMA) No. 122, a production sharing agreement between the company and the government to develop, manage and utilize the grading lands.
The agreement expired in 2018 but even then they continued to be eased out of their ancestral domain. As a result the Manobo Pulangiyon have been living and forced to live in the sidelines of their ancestral land where they used to cultivate food for subsistence and were continuously denied access to clean water.