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What’s at stake for the environment in Suriname’s upcoming elections?

Maxwell Radwin 23 May 2025
An aerial view of mining operations run by KP Cement, Vantage Mining and others inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in October 2023. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cement factory approved inside Cambodia’s Prey Lang sanctuary despite mining ban

Gerald Flynn 28 Apr 2025

Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups

Maxwell Radwin 27 Mar 2025

Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Ecuador’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2025

As the gold rush surges in Nicaragua, Indigenous communities pay the price

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2025

El Salvador reverses landmark mining ban, setting up clash with activists

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jan 2025

An underground gold war in Colombia is ‘a ticking ecological time bomb’

Joshua Collins 31 Dec 2024

In Ecuador, booming profits in small-scale gold mining reveal a tainted industry – investigation

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 3 Oct 2024

Permits granted for Colombia’s Alacrán mine amid pollution, deforestation concerns

Maxwell Radwin 20 Sep 2024

The challenge of the next oil and gas investments further in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Aug 2024

The Andes are a key supplier of gold for the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 15 Aug 2024

Expanding the colonization of the Brazilian Amazon through gold mining

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2024

Activists ask for help combatting violence against Nicaragua’s Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jul 2024

Brazil’s wildcat mining is deeply rooted in its politics and thirst for minerals

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Jul 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Venezuela’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2024

As logging booms in Suriname, forest communities race to win land rights

Maxwell Radwin 4 Jul 2024

The most prominent mining companies in the Pan Amazon – a review

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Jun 2024
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

In Peru’s Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2024

In the Pan Amazon, environmental liabilities of old mining have become economic liabilities

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jun 2024

In a village divided, farmers stall massive copper mine in Colombian Andes

Austin Landis 29 May 2024

Ecuador’s Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 28 May 2024

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 May 2024

Is the extractive sector really favorable for the Pan Amazon’s economy?

Timothy J. Killeen 8 May 2024

State management and regulation of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 2 May 2024

The environmental mismanagement of enduring oil industry impacts in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Apr 2024
In the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, new hydropower dams threaten both protected forest and REDD+ projects. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Gerald Flynn 17 Apr 2024

Illegal mining in the Pan Amazon: an ecological disaster for floodplains and local communities

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Apr 2024

Mining in the Pan Amazon in pursuit of the world’s most precious metal

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Apr 2024

The environmental and social liabilities of the extractive sector

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Mar 2024
Exploratory oil drilling in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Colin Dunlop.

Mineral commodities: the wealth that generates most impacts in the Pan Amazon | Chapter 5 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

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