“The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change.” (Laudato Si’, 13, Pope Francis) The Conference of Major Superiors of the Philippines- CMSP (formerly the Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines – AMRSP), both men and women major superiors, delegates and representatives of our mission partners met in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan on September 11-15 and 25-29, 2023, respectively. We believe the claims of the indigenous people, local residents, environmental defenders and advocates that this mining activity is not only bringing irreversible damage to the protected land and natural resources, but also irreparable harm to health, life and culture of the people themselves. and the Ipilan Nickel Corp., the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the local and national government leaders to respect the protected ancestral area of the indigenous people of Brooke’s Point by the National Integrated Protected Area System (NIPAS) which was reiterated through the writ of Kalikasan issued by the Supreme Court in August this year.