Mongabay

RJ Nichole Ledesma, chronicler of unsettled ground on Negros Island, was killed last month. He was 30.

RJ Nichole Ledesma’s journalism returned again and again to land: who worked it, who owned it, who was pushed from it, and what happened when projects planned elsewhere arrived in villages with little warning. In Negros, an island shaped by sugar plantations, labor struggles and…