... to the 476 million Indigenous Peoples across the globe — the tip of the iceberg of today’s social and economic inequities.
For those already faced with food insecurity due to loss of ancestral lands, ...
... can be described as one of the most aggressive industrial activities, environmentally, socially and culturally, because it generates great impacts on the natural and cultural landscape, pollutes the air, ...
... Marsh, one of the largest wetlands in the country, and further downstream to Davao Gulf and Sarangani Bay, affecting numerous terrestrial and marine species.
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... River is now dead thanks to Ivanhoe and Lepanto,” he said. He added that tailings from the mine disposed into the river have had a harmful impact on fish, and heavy metals have poisoned agricultural lands. ...
... the iron oxide in the 200-hectare concession, community water supplies are polluted, trees have been flattened and landslides and flooding are more frequent.
In 2018, Los Pinares began to build an access ...
... and powerful Western corporations set their sights on these lands, or the minerals beneath them, local people standing in their way frequently find themselves bulldozed. In the era of climate catastrophe, ...
... efforts to ensure that Glencore assumes responsibility for its impacts, the landscape in the territories does not seem to have changed much. For this reason it is necessary to support the push for mechanisms ...
... to clear ancestral domain lands for mining companies, particularly small-scale Chinese firms with pending mining applications. Since 2000, Chinese investments in the Philippine mining sector have been ...
... of wetlands and floodplains, while affecting more than two miles of creeks. Development projects don’t typically impact that many wetlands in South Carolina, a state studded with the soggy depressions ...
... homes have been rented or sold since the mine opened, he said.
According to the expansion plans, OceanaGold will enlarge the 4,552 mine site by 832 acres, or about 18 percent. Nearly 100 acres of wetlands ...
... sacred Apache lands.
And across the country, the Poor People’s Campaign is uniting many of these struggles with the demand for clean and affordable water for the 14 million Americans who lack it — from ...
... of their lands by the mine.
Another Pan American Silver operation, located in northern Peru, has been the source of even more conflict. Construction of the Shahuindo gold mine in Cajamarca started in ...
... in 2021 was brought by a Netherlands-based company against Peru over a failed telecommunications investment. With this latest case, there are a total of 13 treaty-based arbitrations currently active against ...
... and human rights abuses associated with the mining projects, including “loss of forests, agricultural lands, biodiversity, surface and ground water, peaceful co-existence among communities and loss of ...
... about stopped a giant mining company from ripping up the landscape to find gold. But in telling the story of how that happened, the authors have found a narrative gold of their own.” ...
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In the latest allegations against Canadian mining, conservationists say new projects could destroy protected lands and further harm endangered species.
A Canadian-Australian ...
... its executives have no one to blame but themselves.
On September 3, the community assembly of Carrizalillo set up camp outside the mine, which is principally located on their lands, after their representatives ...
... Vizcaya, especially in light of the floods and landslides brought by the recent typhoons. This illegal entry of fuel to the mines add insult to injury, as OGPI prevented the provincial government from ...
... particularly in Bulacan, Pampanga, and Bataan provinces since 2000.
As a fisherfolk himself, he was involved in a campaign against the China’s takeover of Philippines’ islands in the West Philippine ...
... For the past 20 years, the Honduran government has sold our ancestral lands to wealthy investors by threatening the Garífuna people to abandon our lands and then selling them under the pretext that they ...