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ILOILO CITY - Two days before Earth Day celebrations, which is today, a Harvard-educated lawyer, law professor and internationally-acclaimed environmentalist activist said that a bounty of P1 million has been offered for his assasination.

This threat to Antonio Oposa followed in the heels of the brutal killing of his friend and collegue Elpidio "Jojo" de la Victoria, director of the Cebu City Fisheries Commission on the Visayan Sea who was shot on April 12, 2006 and died the next day. Oposa, who works with de la Victoria in the Visayan Sea Squadron, said they have been both receiving death threats after working to exclude commercial fishing operators from the Visayan seas.