Land rights and extractives News

Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing

Displaced by a dam, women defenders fight for their land rights in Colombia

Amazonian communities in Peru try to keep oil-rich Block 64 in their own hands

In Thailand’s deep south, a fight to stop quarrying in a global geopark

Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest

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

In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures

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

Canada mining push puts major carbon sink and Indigenous lands in the crosshairs

Push for potash mine in Brazil’s Amazon looms over Indigenous people

Tale of two pandemics as mining thrived while communities faced restrictions

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

Ousted anti-mining mayor heads back to Philippine city hall after landslide win

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

“Indigenous people are fighting to protect a natural equilibrium”: Q&A with Patricia Gualinga

Analysis: Myanmar’s gemstone riches bring poverty and environmental destruction

Forest loss shows stopgap decrees failing to protect Brazil’s isolated Indigenous

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

‘I am pro-mining’: Indigenous opposition to Philippine mine project falters

Illegal mining fuels social conflict in Indonesian tin hub of Bangka-Belitung

At a disputed Native massacre site, tribes brace for a new, lithium-driven rush

From Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds mining-driven deforestation

ReconAfrica pushes ahead with Namibia oil exploration amid claims of violations

Sierra Leone lawsuit against diamond mine runs up against corporate opacity

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

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

Analysts point to logging and mining to explain Solomon Islands unrest

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

Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’

In round 2 of Philippine geothermal project, tribes dig in for a greater say

California is the world’s number one importer of Amazonian oil, report finds

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

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