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Solutions to avoid loss of environmental, social and governance investment

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Jun 2024

In the Pan Amazon, environmental liabilities of old mining have become economic liabilities

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jun 2024

In a village divided, farmers stall massive copper mine in Colombian Andes

Austin Landis 29 May 2024

Sustainability in the extractive industries is a paradox

Timothy J. Killeen 29 May 2024

Ecuador’s Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 28 May 2024

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 May 2024
Armed police and military forces called by a Canadian mining company carry out operations in Sigchos

As miner quells protests in Ecuador, Canadian firms’ rights record faces scrutiny

Aimee Gabay 15 May 2024

Is the extractive sector really favorable for the Pan Amazon’s economy?

Timothy J. Killeen 8 May 2024

Indigenous Philippine village rejects gold mine, cites flawed consultation

Michael Beltran 1 May 2024

The environmental mismanagement of enduring oil industry impacts in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Apr 2024
In the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, new hydropower dams threaten both protected forest and REDD+ projects. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Gerald Flynn 17 Apr 2024
Mercury being used to agglomerate gold.

Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Apr 2024

Illegal mining in the Pan Amazon: an ecological disaster for floodplains and local communities

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Apr 2024

Mining in the Pan Amazon in pursuit of the world’s most precious metal

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Apr 2024
Small-scale illegal gold mining is widespread throughout much of the Peruvian Amazon, but especially in Madre de Dios, causing enormous harm to the environment and human population in what's recognized as a biodiversity hotspot.

Amazon prosecutors get sharper impact tool to charge illegal gold dealers

Justin Catanoso 27 Mar 2024

The environmental and social liabilities of the extractive sector

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Mar 2024

Mineral commodities: the wealth that generates most impacts in the Pan Amazon | Chapter 5 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2024

Bid to mitigate gold mine’s impact on orangutans hit by stonewalling, data secrecy

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2024
Unregulated gold mining on a river in, Nowshera, Pakistan. Image courtesy of Sabir Hussain.

Illegal gold mining threatens Indus River water and biodiversity in Pakistan (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 9 Jan 2024

Illegal gold mining devastates Peruvian Amazon river and communities

Enrique Vera 2 Jan 2024
The Xingu River in the Amazonian state of Pará. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto / Amazon Watch.

Mining company Belo Sun sues environmental defenders in intimidation tactic, NGOs say

Aimee Gabay 12 Dec 2023
The Late Cheng Mining Development site in the Kampong Thom province section of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary has encroached further into the protected forest as Chinese miners churn up the earth in search of gold. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Chinese gold miners ‘illegally’ tearing up Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 7 Dec 2023
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Peru’s crackdown on illegal gold mining a success, but only briefly, study shows

Dan Collyns 5 Dec 2023

Smallholders and loggers push deeper into Sumatra’s largest park

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2023

Can blockchain clean up the gold industry in Brazil and across the globe?

Charlie Espinosa and Charles Lyons 14 Nov 2023

Lifted sanctions on gold, oil could slow conservation efforts in Venezuela

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2023
Protesters traveled from Las Naves, and across the country, to protest mining activities in their communities in front of the Constitutional Court, during a hearing to debate Decree 754 on September 18, 2023.

Tensions flare as Ecuador’s environment consultation process is put to the test

Kimberley Brown 16 Oct 2023

‘It’s a real mess’: Mining and deforestation threaten unparalleled DRC wildlife haven

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Oct 2023
A muddied river.

Muddied tropical rivers reveal magnitude of global gold mining boom: Study

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2023

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