Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment and the Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines, confirmed and denounced an attempt by the Philippine National Police to raid our shared headquarters in Quezon City on October 4, 2019. A reliable source, whose identity was withheld for safety reasons, revealed that a contingent of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) attempted to raid the group's offices for allegedly harboring indigenous Lumad children and educating them to become activists. The groups said in response: "We believe supporting and empowering our Lumad brothers and sisters is a critical solution to the ecological crises we face today. They are the natural stewards of at least 7.7 million hectares of forests, agricultural lands, rivers, and reefs covered by their ancestral domain across the island of Mindanao. Precisely because of this concentration of natural wealth in their territories, that the Lumads of Mindanao have become targets for displacement by the biggest extractive and destructive business interests in the country. Almost 50 percent of all the 225 environment-related killings, monitored since 2001, was perpetrated in the island of Mindanao. Indigenous peoples comprised 36 percent of all the victims... We believe it is not a coincidence that these attacks come during and after we recently came out with a report on Filipino environmental defender killings under Duterte with international anti-corruption group Global Witness. CEC and Kalikasan have joined the Lumads in exposing the violence perpetrated by large scale mines and agribusiness alongside mercenary military and paramilitary groups in Mindanao."