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About 72% of gold miners poisoned with mercury at artisanal mining sites in Cameroon

U.N. report calls for the ban of mercury trade and its use in gold mining

COP27: ‘Brazil is back’ to fight deforestation, Lula says, but hurdles await

Myanmar communities decry disempowerment as forest guardians since 2021 coup

Shady contracts, backdoor deals spur illegal gold mining in Bolivian Amazon

Guatemalans strongly reject mining project in local referendum

Activists welcome decision to revoke permit for controversial Philippine gold mine

Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo

Industrial mining’s tropical deforestation footprint spills beyond concessions

Can Two New Bills Reshape Indigenous Rights and Illegal Gold Mining in Suriname?

Chinese companies criticized for mercury pollution in Cameroon

In revising its criminal code, Indonesia risks unraveling environmental laws

Brazil miner sees Indigenous land as ripe for exploration if protections expire

Raids reveal how illegal gold from Indigenous lands gets laundered in Brazil

A 13-year fight against gold mining in Colombian community marches on

Fighting extractive industries in Ecuador: Q&A with Indigenous rights activist María Espinosa

‘The water is brown’: Community in Guyana rings the alarm over unsustainable mining near river

Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows

Peru’s Amazon rainforest is threatened by an ecosystem of environment crime (commentary)

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

Mining company destroys Indigenous cemetery during expansion in Honduras

Indonesia’s Sangihe islanders score legal victory over mining company

Miners, drug traffickers and loggers: Is Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park on the verge of collapse?

For Ecuador’s A’i Cofán leaders, Goldman Prize validates Indigenous struggle

Proposed copper and gold mine threatens the world’s ‘second Amazon’ in PNG

Illegal mining threatens one of the last forest links between the Andes and Ecuador’s Amazon

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Suspension of Chinese miner for pollution in DRC points to wider problem

Open-pit mining ban lifted in Philippine province, clearing way for copper project

Illegal mining footprint swells nearly 500% inside Brazil Indigenous territories

Thai gold mine blamed for sickening local villagers is set to reopen

Court setback doesn’t sway Indonesian villagers fighting a mining firm

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