Filipino indigenous Ati tribe fear relocation

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The island of Boracay in central Philippines is classified as one of the world's most beautiful islands. With an influx of thousands of tourists visiting its beaches annually, it generates millions of US dollars for the government from tourism revenue alone. But the increasing commercial development drove the island's indigenous tribe, the Atis, away from their homes. For decades, they have remained poor, uneducated and marginalized. And as the government tries to help them relocate by granting them a part of the island's most sought-after swathes of land by developers, the Atis worry for their safety Al Jazeera's Jamela Alindogan reports from Borocay.