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Illegal miners fire shots, burn homes in Munduruku Indigenous Reserve

Ana Ionova 28 May 2021

New clearing of forest in protected area in Brazil linked to mining

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2021
The Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Apr 2021

Brazilian Cerrado savanna: Wildcat miners descend on Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 16 Apr 2021

‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits

Leilani Chavez 15 Apr 2021
An Indigenous woman crossing a river. Image by Alicia MucúChoc/FAO.

Nearly half the Amazon’s intact forest on Indigenous-held lands: Report

John Cannon 25 Mar 2021

Brazil’s isolated tribes in the crosshairs of miners targeting Indigenous lands

Hyury Potter and Fabio Bispo 17 Mar 2021

The Kalunga digitally map traditional lands to save Cerrado way of life

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 24 Feb 2021

Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining

Sam Cowie 22 Jan 2021
Gold mining is a major threat to the forests and biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon, including protected areas. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Environmental assassinations bad for business, new research shows

Genevieve Belmaker 20 Jan 2021
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020

Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 21 Dec 2020

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Sue Branford 19 Nov 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister and Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020

Years after defeating a giant gold mine, activists in Colombia still fear for their lives

Juan Zuleta Valencia 29 Oct 2020

Madagascar shuts down ‘illegal’ gold mine but activists remain in legal limbo

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2020

Philippine court upholds open-pit mining ban in Mindanao

Bong S. Sarmiento 19 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

Land grab, logging, mining threaten biodiversity haven of Woodlark Island

Gianluca Cerullo 1 Oct 2020

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2020

Officials quash plan, for now, to develop Philippines’ biggest copper mine

Bong S. Sarmiento 30 Aug 2020

Amazon gold mining wipes out rainforest regeneration for years: Study

Taran Volckhausen 4 Aug 2020

Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges

Jenny Gonzales 30 Jul 2020

Philippine court rejects OceanaGold’s bid to keep mining on expired permit

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2020

Brazilian court orders 20,000 gold miners removed from Yanomami Park

Sue Branford 7 Jul 2020

Discovery of fish never recorded in the Amazon shows richness of Brazil’s Calha Norte

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Jul 2020

Gold priced at $1,700 per ounce brings new gold rush to Brazilian Amazon

Fábio Nascimento (photos) and Gustavo Faleiros (text) 1 Jul 2020

Offensive against the Amazon: An incontrollable pandemic (commentary)

Marcos Colón; Luís de Camões Lima Boaventura; and Erik Jennings 1 Jun 2020

Canadian company positions for mining ban lift in Argentine province

John Cannon 11 May 2020
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

The mining map: Who’s eyeing the gold on Brazil’s indigenous lands?

Agência Pública, Anna Beatriz Anjos, Bruno Fonseca, Ciro Barros, José Cícero da Silva, Rafael Oliveira, Thiago Domenici 7 May 2020

Decades-old mine in Bougainville exacts devastating human toll: Report

John Cannon 17 Apr 2020

Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2020

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