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In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022
An okapi. Image by Steve Wilson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Refuge of endangered ‘African unicorn’ threatened by mining, poaching, deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Feb 2022

More coffee, less gold: Sumatra farmers alarmed over revival of mine project

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 Feb 2022
Aerial view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mines

Brazil’s Amazon gold mining to be “stimulated” by Bolsonaro’s decree (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Feb 2022

Mexico’s top court cancels mining concessions near Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 18 Feb 2022
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield

Fernanda Wenzel, Olivier Christe 21 Jan 2022
Gold mining in the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Brazil’s illegal gold rush is fueling corruption, violent crime and deforestation

Robert Muggah 14 Jan 2022

Philippine groups slam ‘cruel Christmas gift’ as open-pit mining ban is lifted

Bong S. Sarmiento 11 Jan 2022
Small-scale gold mining

Secrecy shrouds new gold mining deal in Guyana’s Marudi mountains

Laurel Sutherland 22 Dec 2021

U.K. conglomerate Jardines ‘caught red-handed’ clearing orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2021

Illegal mining threatens Indigenous land at foot of Philippines’ tallest peak

Bong S. Sarmiento 30 Nov 2021

Struggle endures for Philippine community pitted against gold miner

Karlston Lapniten 9 Nov 2021

Bolsonaro evades genocide blame amid Indigenous deaths by invaders, COVID-19

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Oct 2021

$200 million in gold extracted in Amazon mine through illegal licenses

Hyury Potter 25 Oct 2021
Chimpanzee

In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Oct 2021

Tanzanian gold miners ten times more likely to die from road injuries, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 15 Oct 2021
Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

Environmental defenders in Nicaragua denounce government crackdown as elections loom

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2021

In Colombia, legal mining proves a win-win for environment, traditional communities

Dimitri Selibas 25 Sep 2021

Rich countries may be buying illegal gold that’s driving Amazon destruction

Juliana Ennes 3 Sep 2021

Illegal mining in Colombia’s Amazon threatens Indigenous communities

Carol Sánchez 24 Aug 2021

333 people rescued from slavery in Brazil mines since 2008, exclusive report shows

Maurício Angelo 3 Aug 2021

Brazil prosecutors seek ban on all gold mining in hard-hit Amazonian region

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Jul 2021

Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure

Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 14 Jul 2021

Activists take Indonesia’s mining law to court, but don’t expect much

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jul 2021

Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 1 Jul 2021

Exhibition showcases Claudia Andujar’s half-century fight for the Yanomami

Sue Branford 24 Jun 2021

Calls for independent probe after anti-mine Indonesian official dies

Basten Gokkon, Della Syahni 15 Jun 2021

Illegal miners block Indigenous leaders headed to protests in Brazil’s capital

Ana Ionova 14 Jun 2021

What’s the cost of illegal mining in Brazil’s Amazon? A new tool calculates it

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jun 2021
Small-scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 8 Jun 2021
Africa's largest population of eastern chimpanzees live in Bili-Uéré. Image by gombe069 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern DRC protected areas

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2021

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