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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

International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists

Maxwell Radwin 2 Aug 2023
IBAMA officers watch a camp on fire.

No new mining operations on Yanomami land after raids and deaths

Sarah Brown 21 Jun 2023

A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano 14 Jun 2023

Venezuela’s environmental crisis is getting worse. Here are seven things to know.

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2023

Venezuela’s hidden runways bring both life and destruction to Indigenous lands

Mie Hoejris Dahl 24 May 2023

Chemical spill in Nicaraguan reserve raises questions about industrial mining regulations

Maxwell Radwin 19 May 2023

A Guatemalan town fights to bar gold mining and save its waters

Jorge Rodríguez 9 May 2023
After burning off the mercury, a relatively pure piece of gold remains. Image by Thomas Graham for Mongabay.

In a Bolivian protected area torn up for gold, focus is on limiting damage

Thomas Graham 2 May 2023

A frontline view of the fight against illegal mining in Yanomami territory

Rubens Valente/Agência Pública 2 May 2023
image of the Porgera copper and gold mine

Gold miner faces global protests as it rekindles a mine with a violent legacy

Ian Morse 1 May 2023

A mountain of gold: Mining titles threaten Indigenous lands in Guainía, Colombia

Jose Guarnizo 26 Apr 2023
Collage

Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Apr 2023

‘Don’t buy Brazilian gold’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Júnior Hekurari Yanomami

Sam Cowie 20 Apr 2023
Fishing in the Sepik River.

Power of traditional beliefs lies at the heart of an anti-mine campaign in PNG

Jim Tan 17 Apr 2023

World’s newest great ape faces habitat loss, multiple threats: Will it survive?

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2023

International mercury regulations fail to protect the environment, public health: study

Maxwell Radwin 13 Apr 2023
Venezuela mine

Brazilian gold miners get free rein in Venezuela’s Indigenous lands

Mie Hoejris Dahl 11 Apr 2023

Report sums up Bolsonaro’s destruction legacy and Amazon’s next critical steps

Sarah Brown 11 Apr 2023
The banks of the Madeira River in the municipality of Porto Velho

‘Gold library’ helps Brazil crack down on Amazon’s illegal mining

Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado 6 Apr 2023

Element Africa: Gold in Ghana, oil in Nigeria, and fracking in South Africa

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2023

In central Brazil, mining company ignores Quilombola concerns over gold project

Sandra Silva/The Mining Observatory 29 Mar 2023
Overflight of illegal mining within the Yanomani Indigenous territory, Roraima, Brazil, April 2021. Image by Christian Braga for Greenpeace.

Can a new regional pact protect the Amazon from environmental crime? (commentary)

Carolina Andrade, Melina Risso, Robert Muggah 28 Mar 2023

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2023

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