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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
Black-headed parrots (Lorius lory) are illegally traded freely in the market around the PT IMIP Morowali Nickel Smelter Industry, Central Sulawesi. Photo: Riza Salman/Mongabay Indonesia.

In eastern Indonesia, forest bird trade flies quietly under social media radar

Riza Salman 11 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

Sustainability in the extractive industries is a paradox

Timothy J. Killeen 29 May 2024

Honduran environmental defenders hit hard by human rights crisis, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 May 2024

Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2024

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

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 28 May 2024

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

Maxwell Radwin 27 May 2024

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

Timothy J. Killeen 21 May 2024

Amplifying Indigenous voices at the global level: Interview with Dario Mejía Montalvo

Dimitri Selibas 20 May 2024

Extractive industries look at degraded land to avoid further deforestation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 15 May 2024
shrimp farm

Venezuela’s shrimp farms push for sustainability against hardship and oil spills

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres, María Fernanda Rodríguez 15 May 2024
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Setback for Guinea mine that threatens World Heritage chimp reserve

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2024

Environmental defenders paid the price during Panama’s historic mining protests – report

Maxwell Radwin 14 May 2024

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

Timothy J. Killeen 8 May 2024
city view

In Brazil, half a century of salt mining sinks a city, displacing thousands

Peter Speetjens 6 May 2024

State management and regulation of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 2 May 2024

Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2024
Silvia Vetancourt holds out a coin purse she is crocheting from cabuya fiber on the path to Plaza Gutierrez, Ecuador. Photo by Liz Kimbrough.

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2024
oil spill Peru

Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

Sarah Brown 25 Apr 2024

Outdated infrastructure and oil spills: the cases of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Apr 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

Rapid growth of Bolivia’s lithium industry creating new problems for local communities

Maxwell Radwin 15 Apr 2024

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

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Apr 2024

How to ‘stop mining before it starts’: Interview with community organizer Carlos Zorrilla

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2024

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

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Apr 2024

In Liberia, a former mining activist gets the bully pulpit

Ashoka Mukpo 28 Mar 2024

The environmental and social liabilities of the extractive sector

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Mar 2024
The new orchid species, Solenangis impraedicta, has a long nectar spur. Image courtesy of Marie Savignac.

‘Mind-blowing’ new orchid species found in Madagascar forest canopy

Liz Kimbrough 22 Mar 2024

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

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